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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.
W. J. Chen, D. L. Yu, L. W. Yan, B. S. Yuan, X. X. He, L. Liu, Y. L. Wei, N. Zhang, X. F. He, H. Wu, Z. B. Shi, Y. Liu, Q. W. Yang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 1 | January 2020 | Pages 37-44
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2019.1629251
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In order to reconstruct the plasma current density, the Current Profile Fitting (CPF) code has been successfully developed on the HL-2A tokamak. A seven-channel motional Stark effect (MSE) diagnostic based on dual photoelastic modulators is installed to measure the pitch angle of the magnetic field, which can be used as an internal magnetic field constraint for the CPF code. Recently, the MSE polarimeter was upgraded with a real-time wavelength matching system to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. The magnetic field angle (γpitch) with a temporal resolution of 10 ms can be provided. In the CPF code, the plasma current density is described as a polynomial, and the Least-Squares method is used to determine the coefficients of the polynomial. The Finite Difference method and the Strongly Implicit Procedure method are used to solve the Grad-Shafranov equation. The code operation is stable. With the improved-quality MSE data, the CPF calculation result of shot 30782 suggests that the safety factor q profile is monotonic. The minimum q value is less than 1 on-axis during sawtooth oscillations in shot 30782. And, the position of the q = 1 surface is consistent with the sawtooth inversion radius measured by electron cyclotron emission and soft X-ray diagnostics.