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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.
Yuanyang Chen, Xiaohua Bao, Ge Gao, Yizhui Tang, Yong Yang, Sheng Liu, Min Wang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 6 | August 2021 | Pages 469-476
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1930824
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
To design the alternating current operation of the J-text tokamak, this paper studies the plasma equilibrium during the plasma toroidal current reversing. First, four alternative current reversal equilibrium configurations with circular cross section when the total toroidal current becomes zero were constructed. Then, the profile of the plasma current was used as the input of a fixed boundary equilibrium solver to calculate the poloidal field coil currents. According to the results, the relationship between the plasma current distribution and currents in ohmic heating coils and vertical field coils is discussed. Finally, the plasma equlibrium of a toroidal current reversal with total plasma current from 40 kA to –40 kA in 40 ms was designed.