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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.
Jun Qu, Peng Fu, Yanan Wu, Jing Lu, Mingxing Zhu, Yan Liang, Yunxiang Tian
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 4 | May 2021 | Pages 316-326
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1880248
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Power quality is analyzed for the poloidal field (PF) power supply system of the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) device. It is found that the power quality is quite different when the four-quarter PF power system is working in different operation modes. The (6k±1)’th (k is the odd number) harmonics are dominant during the electricity-cost phase while the (6k±1)’th (k is the even number) harmonics exist abundantly during the electricity-generation stage. In addition, fast Fourier transform as the data analysis method is applied to process harmonics and interharmonics. The experimental results present the characteristics of waveform and of current and power, and they show the emission features of harmonics and interharmonics, which leads to the conclusion that the energy of interharmonics and spectrum leakage caused by the harmonic clustering algorithm is recovered to an integer or that the picket fence effect results in the spectrum leakage of interharmonics.