Primes of Atlantis: a definition and a problem

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We denote the floor function as $\lfloor x\rfloor$, and for integers $k\geq 1$ we consider the following sum of the areas of three consecutive circles $$\pi k^2+\pi(k+1)^2+\pi(k+2)^2=\pi \left( 3k^2+6k+5\right). $$

Definition. When for an integer $n\geq 1$ the integer $$\mathcal{A}(n)=\lfloor \pi\left( 3n^2+6n+5\right) \rfloor$$ is a prime number, I say that it's a prime of Atlantis.

Our sequence of prime of Atlantis starts as $$43, 157, 241, 769, 4567, 11551, 14341, 16631, 19949\ldots$$ corresponding to the indexes $n's:1, 3, 4, 8, 21, 34, 38, 41, 45, \ldots$ as you can see with these codes using Wolfram Alpha online calculator:

Table IsPrime(floor(pi (n^2+(n+1)^2+(n+2)^2))), for n=1 to 100

Table floor(pi (n^2+(n+1)^2+(n+2)^2)), for n=1 to 100

Question. I would like to know if we can deduce if there are infinitely many primes of Atlantis. Many thanks.

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This is not a complete answer , but I show some statistics about the "primes of Atlantis"

Program PARI/GP is used

First of all the $n$ upto $1000$, for which we get a "prime of Atlantis" :

\p 10000 { High precision calculation }
pa(n)=isprime(truncate(Pi*(3*n^2+6*n+5)),2)==1 {pa(n) is true if and only if we get a prime of Atlantis by choosing $n$}

? select(m->pa(m)==1,[0..1000])
%4 = [1, 3, 4, 8, 21, 34, 38, 41, 45, 69, 75, 91, 136, 166, 179, 190, 202, 222,
227, 228, 229, 230, 239, 267, 284, 308, 313, 317, 323, 351, 359, 381, 392, 409,
417, 429, 433, 434, 442, 449, 456, 460, 463, 468, 486, 490, 518, 527, 549, 585,
588, 607, 632, 651, 668, 670, 684, 694, 700, 703, 727, 764, 775, 782, 805, 811,
814, 820, 821, 844, 850, 894, 896, 920, 925, 926, 932, 969, 979, 985]
?

For $n\in [1,10]$ , we get $4$ primes

For $n\in [10,100]$ , we get $8$ primes

For $n\in [100,1000]$ , we get $68$ primes

For $n\in [10^3,10^4]$ , we get $498$ primes

For $n\in [10^4,10^5]$ , we get $3778$ primes

For $n\in [10^5,10^6]$ , we get $31767$ primes

Some large $n$, for which we get a "prime of Atlantis"

$$10^{100}+142$$ $$10^{200}+114$$ $$10^{500}+6391$$ $$10^{1000}+1395$$

with $201$ , $401$ , $1001$ and $2001$ digits respectively. There are probably infinite many "primes of Atlantis", but it is hard to imagine that this can be proven.