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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.
Benjamin Ruiz-Yi, Lucas M. Angelette, Paul R. Beaumont
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 2024 | Pages 48-54
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2023.2196238
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The separation of tritiated sources from the exhaust stream of a nuclear fusion system remains a key area of study. While current hydrogen isotope separation technologies are effective at separating gaseous elemental hydrogen, they require additional costly and time-intensive electrolysis steps to be applied toward tritiated water. Previous work has proposed a capture and exchange method, which this work has applied to screen for an optimal weight loading of platinum onto a zeolite molecular sieve. Several samples of various weight loadings were cycled using a series of isotope exchange processes, and it was determined that a weight loading between 0.65 to 0.80 wt% Pt is optimal to separate heavier isotopes of hydrogen from a water waste stream.