Cutaway diagram of the General Electric 601B ... now seems to center on next-generation small modular reactors: everything from pebble-bed to thorium. This Cold War relic of an idea has a few ...

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 ...

He was a member of a panel of experts appointed by the South African government to evaluate the pebble bed modular reactor, which has not published their report. He also co-edited International ...

The world's first industrial-scale demonstration plant of high temperature gas-cooled reactor with pebble-bed module starts fuel loading on Aug 21. [Photo/WeChat account of CNNC] The world's first ...

Thank you for the opportunity to brief the House on a very difficult matter concerning the future of the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) project. Without going into too much detail right now, ...

2019). To the best of our knowledge, using condensate water from the sugar and alcohol industry to produce hydrogen in fixed-bed anaerobic reactors shows that this by-product becomes an attractive ...

The test beds will assist reactor developers test their fuelled microreactor experiments quickly, safely, and cost-effectively by levering existing infrastructure at the lab. DOE determined that the ...