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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.
Valter Cocilovo, Giuseppe Ramogida
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 72 | Number 3 | October 2017 | Pages 478-482
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1330608
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In this work the analysis of the effects of the poloidal currents flowing on the cooling piping of the divertor armour tiles is carried out. To deal with the complexity of the problem a parametric solving scheme, starting from the nominal plasma current value, was adopted to contemplate the great variability of the possible cases deriving from the experimental data base and to compensate the lack of knowledge due to the not well assessed theory on the plasma wall interaction. Further to overcame the difficulties in modeling the real design of the piping with the necessary spatial resolution to individuate the local current concentration areas the methodology illustrated here is based on shell interfaces for solving either the electric and the mechanical problem. This approach proved to be capable to highlight the critical design areas and was useful to suggest the relative remedial corrections.