VCs have poured billions into a nascent nuclear technology — these are the 4 companies to watch
The industry consensus is that they produce less power — around 300 megawatts instead of the 1,000 megawatts, or 1 gigawatt — ...
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China Successfully Performs Full Cooling Failure Test On New ‘Meltdown Proof’ Nuclear Reactor
This method is known as a pebble-bed reactor (PBR). This design can be cooled using similar methods as traditional nuclear ...
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No-Melt Nuclear ‘Power Balls’ Might Win A Few Hearts And Minds
It’s tens of thousands of triso particles packed into a sphere the size of a billiard ball, and it’s designed to work with the company’s pebble bed reactor that produces 1/8th the power of a ...
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Valar Atomics comes out of stealth with $19M and a pilot reactor site
Companies developing small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) have raised more than $1.5 billion in the past year, as tech companies hunger for power to train AI models and governments decide to ...
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Gas cooled reactors
A commercial demonstration power plant, the pebble bed module reactor, is currently under construction in Shidao Bay, China, with prospects to generate electricity by 2017. The IAEA has helped ...
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Stratek Global and Groupe Albatros sign strategic partnership
South African high-temperature gas-cooled reactor developer Stratek Global has announced a strategic partnership with ...
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Revamped Necsa prepares for the return of small nuclear reactors
South Africa was a world leader in the development of small modular reactors (SMRs), such as the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR), a project shelved in 2010 under then President Jacob Zuma.
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Steve Thomas
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 ...