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pebble bed nuclear reactors
The Pebble Bed Reactor is an advanced nuclear
reactor design. This technology claims a dramatically higher level of safety and efficiency. Instead of water, it uses
helium as the coolant, at very high temperature, to drive a
target=_blank title="Wikipedia: Turbine">turbine directly. This eliminates the complex steam management system from the design, and increases the
transfer efficiency (ratio of electrical output to thermal output) to about 50%.
The technology in various forms is under development by MIT, the
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa" target=_blank title="Wikipedia: South Africa">South African power utility Eskom, General
Atomic (U.S.), the Dutch company Romaha B.V., Adams Atomic Engines, a U.S. Company,
and the Chinese company Chinergy, working
with Tsinghua University.
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Daily Maverick
April 24, 2018
"And it came after the failed Pebble Bed reactor project that cost the country about R11bn. So much money had been wasted on nuclear already. And this Russian deal seemed like a done deal. (Former President Jacob) Zuma was doing a lot of trips to Russia," Lekalakala said. Earthlife began writing ...
Digital Journal
April 10, 2018
Rise in applications of graphite in technologically advanced solar power systems, fuel cells, pebble-bed nuclear reactors, and aerospace and automotive industries is driving the graphite powder market in Asia Pacific. India and China are major markets for graphite powder in the region. China accounts ...
Energy Collective
April 4, 2018
Southern Nuclear has teamed up with X-Energy to develop a molten chloride salt reactor using pebble bed fuel. Terra Power is also exploring molten salt reactor technology in a partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Terrestrial Energy Signs IMSR Fuel Testing Contract. WNN: Terrestrial ...
Energy Collective
April 3, 2018
The RDE is a very small sized pebble-bed high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) with low enriched uranium oxide TRISO fuel. The objective for the design and technology of the reactor is for it to be suitable for subsequent commercial use by utilities and independent power producers around ... Nuclear Reactors
Oak Ridge Today
March 28, 2018
X-energy is an advanced nuclear reactor design and TRISO-based fuel fabrication company. X-energy is developing an innovative nuclear power plant design solution. The Xe-100 is a 200MWt (76MWe) high temperature gas-cooled pebble bed modular reactor that requires less time to construct, ...
Next Big Future
March 21, 2018
Batan launched a plan in 2014 to build an 10 MWt RDE at its largest research center site – the Puspiptek Complex, in Serpong, South Tangerang, Banten – as a first strategic milestone for the introduction of large-scale nuclear power plant fleets into the country. The RDE is a very small sized pebble-bedÃÂ ...
Next Big Future
March 21, 2018
Batan launched a plan in 2014 to build an 10 MWt RDE at its largest research center site – the Puspiptek Complex, in Serpong, South Tangerang, Banten – as a first strategic milestone for the introduction of large-scale nuclear power plant fleets into the country. The RDE is a very small sized pebble-bedÃÂ ...
Digital Journal
March 20, 2018
Rise in applications of graphite in technologically advanced solar power systems, fuel cells, pebble-bed nuclear reactors, and aerospace and automotive industries is driving the graphite powder market in Asia Pacific. India and China are major markets for graphite powder in the region. China accounts forÃÂ ...
Next Big Future
March 20, 2018
Batan launched a plan in 2014 to build an 10 MWt RDE at its largest research center site – the Puspiptek Complex, in Serpong, South Tangerang, Banten – as a first strategic milestone for the introduction of large-scale nuclear power plant fleets into the country. The RDE is a very small sized pebble-bedÃÂ ...
World Nuclear News
March 17, 2018
Batan launched a plan in 2014 to build an 10 MWt RDE at its largest research centre site - the Puspiptek Complex, in Serpong, South Tangerang, Banten - as a first strategic milestone for the introduction of large-scale nuclear power plant fleets into the country. The RDE is a very small sized pebble-bedÃÂ ...
ESI Africa
March 2, 2018
“South Africa's research efforts into Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) have recently been revived via research efforts focussed on an Advanced High Temperature Reactor (AHTR) for commercialisation in the 2030s based on previous research as part of the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR).”.
GCR
January 3, 2018
China has begun pouring concrete for one of the world's first “gen IV” nuclear reactors, the CFR-600, on the coast of Fujian province, about 400km south of Shanghai. The 600MW demonstration unit, which is due to be complete in 2023, follows a 20MW experimental reactor completed in 2011. It is intendedÃÂ ...
POWER magazine
October 31, 2017
The process uses a graphite-moderated nuclear reactor and a once-through uranium fuel cycle. SNPTC's project, which consists of two 250-MW high-temperature reactor pebble-bed modules (HTR-PM, Figure 4), is located in Shandong province. Tests at the project are expected to end in April 2018,ÃÂ ...
World Nuclear News
September 19, 2017
China is moving rapidly towards using nuclear power as an industrial heat source and as a direct replacement for coal, Yulong Wu, CEO of Chinergy, told a side ... The design sees two pebble-bed reactors cooled by helium produce 250 MWt MWt each and drive one steam turbine to produce 210 MWe net.
Kormorant
September 15, 2017
In August it was reported that Eskom considers relaunching the pebble bed modular reactor programme. Eskom has embarked on an initiative to explore the feasibility for the development of the advanced high temperature reactor (AHTR) programme based on the PBMR programme that has been in a stateÃÂ ...
Financial Mail
September 13, 2017
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Creamer Media's Engineering News
September 10, 2017
The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) is reactivating its ability to manufacture nuclear pebble fuel, originally created to support South Africa's Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) programme. This was reported by Necsa group CEO Phumzile Tshelane at a media briefing at Pelindaba onÃÂ ... nuclear reactor
Next Big Future
August 15, 2017
The cost of China's smaller modular pebble bed nuclear reactors should only be $420 million for a 210 MW version and $1.2 billion for a threepack that could be a dropin replacement for the coal burner at China's many coal plants. The US has seen prices for US 1.2 GW AP1000 nuclear plants is far higher. nuclear reactor
BizNews
March 30, 2017
If the current crop of politicians don't push our economy too far backwards, South Africa could sport a fleet of pebble bed nuclear reactors (PBNR's) to supplement the current protracted 9.6 MW capacity nuclear build by 2037. That's quite a startling claim, but eminently possible, if you believe theÃÂ ... nuclear reactor
Daily Maverick
March 29, 2017
Eskom's chief nuclear officer, David Nicholls, explains the potential of the utility's renewed interest in the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR). The project is still in its research phase. CHRIS YELLAND and PIERRE POTGIETER interviewed him for EE Publishers. This is an edited version. nuclear reactor
Business Analytics
December 31, 1999
“Global Graphite Market Outlook 2024: Global Opportunity And Demand Analysis, Market Forecast, 2018-2024” presents a comprehensive assessment of the market and contains thoughtful insights, facts, historical data, and statistically supported and industry validated market data. It also containsÃÂ ... Market
Nuclear Street
December 31, 1999
Citing strong interest from the United States and inquiries from Russia and Indonesia, the head of the South Africa Nuclear Energy Corporation (Nesca) said that it was working towards the restart of its pebble bed modular reactor fuel production by sometime next year. Pebble Bed fuel “We are taking ourÃÂ ... Market
Assets Stock
December 31, 1999
Global Pebble Bed Modular Reactors (PBMR) market analyses the present industry situations on a broad scale to provide the Pebble Bed Modular ... Chubu Electric Power Company Inc. (Japan), Axpo Group (Switzerland), EDF Energy Plc (UK), Dominion Resources Inc. (US), China National Nuclear Corp. Market
Security Boulevard
January 30, 2018
The piece specifically mentioned China's 2007 success at moving its nuclear program ahead by allegedly pilfering data (both physically and technologically) from the South African Pebble Bed Modular Reactor. The 2009 South African National Intelligence Agency report, which The Guardian quoted,ÃÂ ... Market
Executive Intelligence Review (EIR)
January 26, 2018
25, 2018 (EIRNS)—A major milestone has been reached in South Africa's nuclear program: It is now the first African nation to obtain certification for a nuclear ... crisis, South Africa was also a leader in developing the next-generation fission technology—the pebble bed gas-cooled high-temperature reactor. Market
Noseweek
January 25, 2018
KwaZulu-Natal – despite having no sites designated for South Africa's official nuclear programme – had played host, just eight months earlier, to a secret conference .... He said the country was well positioned in its understanding of alternative nuclear fuels after mooting the now-mothballed pebble bed modular reactor. Market
Stockhouse
December 22, 2017
The Graphite industry is experiencing an increase in demand from numerous industrial sectors, spanning both developing and developed economies. Traditional uses of Graphite include steelmaking, electrodes in electric arc furnaces, brake linings, modern pebble bed nuclear reactors, and dry lubricants. Market
Alameda Sun
December 22, 2017
When I read a few weeks ago that Kairos Power is building a research facility here in Alameda for pebble bed nuclear plants, (“Nuclear Research Coming to Alameda,” Nov. 16) I was elated at the prospect of frontier industry coming to Alameda. I know that a lot has been done to upgrade the design ofÃÂ ... Market
World Nuclear News
December 15, 2017
Although several advanced SMRs are in development and coming to market by 2030 that could meet the specifications, the study selected models to consider: the HTR-PM pebble-bed reactor currently being constructed in China and Terrestrial Energy's Integral Molten Salt Reactor. "Small nuclear reactorsÃÂ ... Market
Politicsweb
December 7, 2017
We are also proud of our Pebble Bed Nuclear Fuel produced at Pelindaba that has withstood high temperatures without an impact on its integrity. Our Nuclear facility at Pelindaba was recently given an award by the US Department of Energy for being the first to successfully convert from using bomb gradeÃÂ ... Market
Business Day
December 7, 2017
He dwelt on SA's nuclear achievements, including Pelindaba nuclear research and medical isotopes facility (recently suspended because of security concerns), pebble bed reactor research (halted several years ago) and Koeberg nuclear power station. He said SA needed to invest in new crude oil refiningÃÂ ... Market
Energy Collective
December 4, 2017
The reactor is a high temperature gas cooled unit based on the “pebble bed” design pursued by South Africa and other nations. Several veterans of the PBMR effort now work on the X-Energy project. If built the reactor would address a significant problem for nuclear energy in Jordan, which is scarcity ofÃÂ ... Market
POWER magazine
October 31, 2017
The process uses a graphite-moderated nuclear reactor and a once-through uranium fuel cycle. SNPTC's project, which consists of two 250-MW high-temperature reactor pebble-bed modules (HTR-PM, Figure 4), is located in Shandong province. Tests at the project are expected to end in April 2018,ÃÂ ... Market
World Nuclear News
September 19, 2017
China is moving rapidly towards using nuclear power as an industrial heat source and as a direct replacement for coal, Yulong Wu, CEO of Chinergy, told a side ... The design sees two pebble-bed reactors cooled by helium produce 250 MWt MWt each and drive one steam turbine to produce 210 MWe net. Market
Kormorant
September 15, 2017
In August it was reported that Eskom considers relaunching the pebble bed modular reactor programme. Eskom has embarked on an initiative to explore the feasibility for the development of the advanced high temperature reactor (AHTR) programme based on the PBMR programme that has been in a stateÃÂ ... Market
Next Big Future
August 15, 2017
The cost of China's smaller modular pebble bed nuclear reactors should only be $420 million for a 210 MW version and $1.2 billion for a threepack that could be a dropin replacement for the coal burner at China's many coal plants. The US has seen prices for US 1.2 GW AP1000 nuclear plants is far higher. Market
BizNews
March 30, 2017
If the current crop of politicians don't push our economy too far backwards, South Africa could sport a fleet of pebble bed nuclear reactors (PBNR's) to supplement the current protracted 9.6 MW capacity nuclear build by 2037. That's quite a startling claim, but eminently possible, if you believe theÃÂ ... Market
Daily Maverick
March 29, 2017
Eskom's chief nuclear officer, David Nicholls, explains the potential of the utility's renewed interest in the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR). The project is still in its research phase. CHRIS YELLAND and PIERRE POTGIETER interviewed him for EE Publishers. This is an edited version. Market
Nuclear Street
December 31, 1999
Citing strong interest from the United States and inquiries from Russia and Indonesia, the head of the South Africa Nuclear Energy Corporation (Nesca) said that it was working towards the restart of its pebble bed modular reactor fuel production by sometime next year. Pebble Bed fuel “We are taking ourÃÂ ... Market
Nuclear Street
December 31, 1999
Citing strong interest from the United States and inquiries from Russia and Indonesia, the head of the South Africa Nuclear Energy Corporation (Nesca) said that it was working towards the restart of its pebble bed modular reactor fuel production by sometime next year. Pebble Bed fuel “We are taking ourÃÂ ... Market
MilTech
December 11, 2017
Rise of technologically advanced applications of graphite in pebble-bed nuclear reactors, fuel cells, solar power systems, and automotive and aerospace industries is driving the graphite market in the Asia Pacific region. China and India are the major markets for graphite in the region. Rising demand forÃÂ ... Market
SCNow
November 14, 2017
Utility executives didn't want anything to do with nuclear power, ... Google "pebble bed reactors" for easy-to-understand information about the ... Market
Eyewitness News
November 7, 2017
“We've had a number of approaches from people to build South African pebble bed nuclear reactors in a number of African countries which are ... Market
Eyewitness News
November 5, 2017
President Jacob Zuma has slammed those who are anti-nuclear, saying .... 10-megawatt pebble-bed reactor at the Tsinghua Institute campus, ... Market
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
November 3, 2017
He is also the chairperson of the South African Nuclear Energy ... “One fuel ball for a pebble-bed reactor is equivalent to the average person's ... Market
International Atomic Energy Agency
October 27, 2017
The nuclear industry could benefit from a new generation of reactors ... to date, the High Temperature Reactor-Pebble-bed Module (HTR-PM), ... Market
Digital Journal
October 25, 2017
Rising energy demand across the globe is driving installation of various novel energy production sources such as nuclear pebble bed reactors. Market
Independent Online
October 25, 2017
The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor was shut down by Barbara Hogan in 2010 ... permission to build a new nuclear power plant at Duynefontein. Market
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