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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.
Hiroto Matsuura, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Suguru Tanaka, Takaaki Iijima, Akira Tonegawa
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 1 | July 2015 | Pages 76-80
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems 2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-856
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In TPD-SheetIV, a simulation experiment on a long leg divertor configuration has been conducted and hydrogen molecular ion formation in detached plasma was observed. Improvements to the simulation geometry used in DEGAS 2 allowed us to study the effect of leg length on neutral transport. This paper also describes a simple ion balance equation and the ion density ratios obtained with it. From these data, it is shown that a long leg divertor enhances molecular ion density in the divertor, which might enhance molecular assisted recombination.