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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.