Just 4 small modular reactor companies have received $3B in VC funding. But leading experts tell BI it's unclear if SMRs will ...

NRG-Pallas - operator of the High Flux Reactor at Petten in the Netherlands - has been contracted by Kairos Power of the USA ...

Those reactors used uranium fuel rods with an exterior that can melt and expose the radioactive element underneath. The ‘pebble bed’ reactor, as it’s known in the industry, fills uranium ...

or HTGR," called the Xe-100 — different from the light-water reactors operating in the US. The Xe-100 is what's known as a "pebble bed model," which extracts electricity by tightly packing ...

CEO Mike Laufer says that his reactors don't use fuel rods; they use fuel pebbles, about the size of golf balls – mostly graphite, with tiny kernels of uranium. And each pebble has as much power ...

Both were Soviet-designed reactors constructed in the 1970s as ... Graffiti has been sprayed in the electrical boxes dotted across the pebble enclosure with keep-out signs warning anyone who ...

For this purpose, Eskom formed the PBMR company (“Pebble Bed Modular Reactor”) – and the research focused on how enriched uranium in pebble form inside a graphite ball as big as a cricket ball could ...