Everyone these days wants to talk about Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) when it comes to nuclear power. The industry seems to have pinned its hopes for a ‘nuclear renaissance’ on the exci… ...

A surprise announcement was delivered to the pebble bed modular reactor (PMBR) project in South Africa’s 2010 budget – it would no longer obtain significant state funds. As a result the project had to ...

In a first for Africa, South Africa's Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) company – in collaboration with Necsa (the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation) – has manufactured High ...

Johannesburg - Eskom, the electricity utility, would announce the investment of a second international partner in its pebble bed modular reactor project next week, Jan de Beer, the chief executive ...

Packed bed reactors are a cornerstone of chemical engineering where solid catalytic particles are arranged within a fixed bed, facilitating enhanced contact between the reactants and the catalyst ...

The project is a first-of-its-kind sodium-potassium (NaK)–cooled test reactor designed to serve as a physical test bed for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) advanced microreactor ...

Previously he was a senior research fellow at the Energy Policy Programme at the Science and Technology Policy Research program at the University of Sussex. He was a member of a panel of experts ...

The world's first industrial-scale demonstration plant of high temperature gas-cooled reactor with pebble-bed module, which was fully developed by China with independent intellectual property rights, ...

Address by the Minister of Public Enterprises, Barbara Hogan, to the National Assembly, on the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor, September 16 2010. Honourable Speaker and Members of the House. Thank you for ...

The reactor was maintained in a temperature-controlled chamber of 55°C (Figure 1). The reaction compartment was filled with cylindrical granules of low-density polyethylene (LDPE), varying from 6.35 ...

The DOME test bed is repurposing the lab’s Experimental Breeder Reactor-II containment structure to lower the risk of developing microreactor designs capable of producing 20 MWt or less. The LOTUS ...