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Antares achieves zero-power criticality at INL
Leveraging more than $140 million in private capital fundraising, over 322,000 square feet of operational manufacturing space, and multifaceted partnerships with the Departments of Energy and Defense, reactor start-up Antares has become the first company involved in the Reactor Pilot Program to achieve zero-power fueled criticality—a full month ahead of the July 4 deadline set by President Trump’s Executive Order 14301.
This milestone, announced yesterday, was achieved with the company’s Mark-0: a sodium heat-pipe-cooled, TRISO-fueled microreactor. The Mark-0 is a forerunner to the company’s flagship design, which it calls the R1. For Antares, this development represents a key validation of its reactor physics, control systems, and supply chain.
A. A.. Yukhimchuk, R. I. Ilkaev
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 3 | April 2015 | Pages 666-670
Proceedings of TRITIUM 2013 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T106
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Overview of efforts in the field of fundamental and applied physics with tritium carried out with participation of RFNC-VNIIEF in 2007-2013 is made. New physical results of studying of muon-catalyzed fusion and neutron excess nuclei are presented; project of a new experiment on searching for a magnetic moment of neutrino using a tritium source and helium detector is discussed. Description of a tritium support testbed for a plasma focus-type neutron source with intensity of 1013 s-1is given. Results of studies in the area of interaction of hydrogen isotopes with structural materials are summarized.