Pebble bed nuclear reactors are still in the development phase and have yet to be placed into operation in any nation, but these reactors promise to eliminate many of the roadblocks that have ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will review Kairos Power’s construction permit application (CPA) for its Hermes non-power demonstration reactor, which the firm has proposed to build at the ...

Radiant is developing Kaleidos, a portable 1.2-megawatt gas-cooled microreactor, as a potential replacement for diesel generators. It is a pebble bed high temperature gas reactor. All the components ...

The US Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and Kairos Power have announced a new agreement to build Kairos' Hermes low-power demonstration molten-salt cooled, pebble-bed reactor at the East Tennessee ...

Both nuclear reactors of the High-Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor-Pebble-bed Module (HTR-PM) at the Shidaowan plant in China’s Shandong province have reached criticality for the first time. The HTR-PM ...

China has launched a new high-temperature gas-cooled nuclear plant in the eastern coastal province of Shandong, the first to make use of 'pebble bed reactor' (PBR) technology developed by state-run ...

The Xe-100 is a 200MWt Advanced Pebble Bed Reactor that will be deployed in Washington State in the 2028 timeframe with the support of the US DOE Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program. The Xe-100 has ...

Scientists and political leaders in China are searching for ways to generate enough energy to fuel the country’s rapidly growing economy while simultaneously cutting power plant emissions. China emits ...

Kelvin Kemm bemoans the decision to abandon the pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR), appearing to argue that South Africa was abandoning an investment programme that with more patience would have borne ...

Although the concept of nuclear fission is a simple and straightforward one, the many choices for fuel types, fuel design, reactor configurations, coolant types, neutron moderator or reflector types, ...

The California energy crisis may have breathed new life into the U.S. nuclear power business. Even the popular press is recognizing nuclear energy as a serious choice for addressing the nation’s ...