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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.
Vincent A. Garcia, Justin A. Porto, Patrick M. Donovan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 79 | Number 7 | October 2023 | Pages 914-918
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2023.2192843
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Recent experiments conducted on hazardous materials using the Precision High Energy-density Liner Implosion eXperiment (PHELIX) required development of a new containment system for the apparatus. Unlike many containment systems, the PHELIX containment system includes a cylindrical imploding aluminum liner, which is driven via magnetic fields to approximate velocities of 1.4 km/s before impacting a target. The complex design attributes and monolithic geometry of the liner have been driven by both simulations and empirical measurements. The contents of this paper cover the design considerations and requirements for the liner, the efforts made in fabricating the component, and steps taken to verify performance both as the dynamic driver of the experiment and as a containment system component.