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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.
M. Romanelli, R. Coelho, D. Coster, J. Ferreira, L. Fleury, S. Henderson, J. Hollocombe, F. Imbeaux, T. Jonsson, L. Kogan, O. Meneghini, A. Merle, S. D. Pinches, O. Sauter, G. Tardini, D. Yadykin, S. Smith, P. Strand, WPCD Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 8 | November 2020 | Pages 894-900
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2020.1819751
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The ITER Integrated Modelling and Analysis System (IMAS) has been adopted by the EUROfusion Consortium as a platform to facilitate the analysis and verification of data from multiple tokamaks for the integration of physics codes and the validation of physics models for fusion plasma simulations. Data mapping tools have been developed to translate the tokamaks’ native data format into IMAS. The mapping required the adoption of standard coordinates, conventions on direction of vectors, signs of fields, and harmonization of physics units. The mapped data have been verified by running integrated simulations using Kepler workflows. Results of the test using IMAS data are reported here along with an assessment of the system for present and future fusion applications.