This method is known as a pebble-bed reactor (PBR). This design can be cooled using similar methods as traditional nuclear ...

Faced with the need to cut carbon emissions, and an increasing energy demand to power AI, companies like Microsoft, Google and Amazon are investing in nuclear, from restarting Three Mile Island, to ...

During World War II, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was the site of testing grounds where early scientists were trying to ...

Generations two and three never got off the drawing board. Generation four is known as a pebble reactor, which relies on a new form of fuel embedded in graphite tennis balls that is just hot ...

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 ...

There are a few reasons. In its natural state, triso isn’t energy-dense enough for today’s large light-water reactors. A fuel pebble breakdown via Breaking Defense Triso is also expensive to ...

South African high-temperature gas-cooled reactor developer Stratek Global has announced a strategic partnership with ...

The development of a Small Modular Nuclear Reactor in Pretoria by South Africans who are mostly Pretoria residents over 20 years, ...