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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.
A. H. Seltzman, S. J. Wukitch
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 7 | October-November 2021 | Pages 641-646
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1913030
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF), also known as selective laser melting, of Glenn Research Copper 84 (GRCop-84), a Cr2Nb (8 at. % Cr, 4 at. % Nb) precipitation-hardened alloy, produces a fully dense, high-conductivity alloy with tensile strength (470-MPa yield and 710-MPa ultimate tensile strength) superior to other competing copper alloys. Agglomeration and coarsening of precipitates in gas atomized GRCop-84 powder occurred above a threshold of 17 μm in diameter. Area of precipitates within cross sections is consistent among powder particles of different diameters indicating a consistent atomization process. Precipitates within gas atomized powder were shown to either melt and subsequently re-precipitate as the melt pool rapidly cools or break apart during LPBF resulting in precipitates smaller than in the initial powder. Precipitate size in powder therefore does not affect precipitate size, and thus tensile strength, in LPBF GRCop-84.