The race to dominate next-gen nuclear power just hit ignition at Idaho’s Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments. The Department of Energy has conditionally selected Westinghouse and Radiant to ...

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 ...

7 September 2009 – 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 ...

Addressing the G20 Energy Transitions Working Group in Cape Town on Wednesday, Ramokgopa said the government planned to capitalise on its knowledge of pebble bed reactor technology to expand the ...

There are more than 50 different small modular reactors in design or development across the world, encompassing a wide variety of concepts, including China's demonstration High Temperature Gas-Cooled ...

The Huaneng Shidaowan High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor Demonstration Project is the world's first pebble bed modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactor, and having achieved the initial full-power ...

Invented by German scientist Professor Rudolf Schulten, the HTR-PM evolved from experimental pebble-bed projects, such as the AVR, a 46-MWth test German HTR that operated between 1967 and 1988 ...

In 2011, the Fukushima nuclear reactor faced a rare problem where both regular and backup power supplies to its cooling system stopped working, causing a meltdown. While pebble-bed reactors do not ...

In the Shidao Bay test, two pebble-bed reactors connected to a 210-MWe steam turbine moderated their own nuclear reactions and safe temperatures were maintained, with the core shutting down in ...

Using an entirely novel, in-house-developed plan for what's been dubbed a "pebble-bed reactor," small quantities of fissile fuel rather than the large fuel rods native to most commercial reactors ...

However, China has now constructed a full-scale Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor Pebble-Bed Module (HTR-PM) in Shandong, which became commercially operational in December 2023 and is equipped with ...

The story of the pebble bed reactor (PBR) is among the most interesting here, with its development winding its way from the US Manhattan Project over the Atlantic to Germany’s nuclear power ...