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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.
Jingsen Geng, Yadong Li, Guojiang Wu, Pan Li, Fei Chen, Yuhao Wang, Ning Sun
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 2024 | Pages 17-25
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2023.2184226
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Anomalous electron thermal transport is an important issue that restricts the development of magnetic confinement thermonuclear fusion, and it is closely related to electron-scale turbulence. This paper introduces the poloidal CO2 laser collective scattering diagnostic system installed on the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) for electron-scale turbulence measurement. The system can measure density fluctuations with four distinct wavenumbers simultaneously ranging from 10 to 30 cm−1 (correspondingly ) in two regions (the core region and the outer region ), which realizes the spatial resolution for turbulence measurement. And, the plasma poloidal rotation velocity in these two regions can be calculated using the measured density fluctuation frequency. In addition, the characteristics of small scattering angle and negligible wave refraction effects reduce the size of the ports required for this diagnostic system. These advantages make the diagnostic system an effective tool for measuring electron-scale turbulence and may play an important role in future burning plasma experiments.