South African high-temperature gas-cooled reactor developer Stratek Global has announced a strategic partnership with ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
The need to balance energy demands with carbon footprint reduction goals is motivating Big Tech companies to explore nuclear ...
He said with the Pebble Bed Moderator Reactor at Pelindaba (PBMR) under care and maintenance, it was in the process of being transferred from Eskom to the Nuclear Research Organisation and issues ...
The development of a Small Modular Nuclear Reactor in Pretoria by South Africans who are mostly Pretoria residents over 20 years, ...
The second programme looked at power generation from nuclear power, including research on small modular reactors. Necsa would also take over the pebble-bed modular reactor intellectual property ...