This method is known as a pebble-bed reactor (PBR). This design can be cooled using similar methods as traditional nuclear reactors. The difference, however, is that if the cooling systems are ...

It's here that South Africa's first Pebble Bed Modular Reactor will be built. Its developers hope that by 2010 the plant will be operational and providing enough electricity for Cape Town's four ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He explained that the reactor is entirely a Pretoria achievement, which built on work in places like the Pebble Bed nuclear project in Centurion and the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation ...