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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.
Jing Pan, Weiwei Xu, Weibin Xi, Mingzhun Lei, Xufeng Liu, Songtao Wu, Kun Lu, Jing Wei, Yuntao Song
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 6 | August 2021 | Pages 477-488
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1936376
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The evaluation of electromagnetic (EM) loads acting on conductive structures is one of the critical problems for tokamaks. This paper focuses on the main conductive components of the Chinese Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR), which are vacuum vessel (VV) and blanket components. A multiscenario EM load-calculating simulator is developed. The simulator adopts circuit equations for the calculation of eddy current, magnetic field, and resulting EM loads acting on the VV. And for EM loads acting on the blanket components, an integral parameter method is applied. With the circuit equations and pre-obtained integral parameters implanted in the simulator, EM loads on the CFETR VV and blankets at different scenarios can be evaluated quickly. Results indicate that the simulator can be conveniently used for multiscenario and real-time EM assessment of the tokamak VV and blanket components.