This method is known as a pebble-bed reactor (PBR). This design can be cooled using similar methods as traditional nuclear reactors. The difference, however, is that if the cooling systems are ...

Researchers have since pushed to build a nuclear reactor that is passively cooled and uses natural cooling methods. One such ...

US-based X-Energy has applied to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a construction permit for their proposed ...

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 ...

The Xe-100 is what's known as a "pebble bed model," which extracts ... in the development of multiple reactors." "We are actively constructing the non-nuclear portions of the Natrium commercial ...

One type of advanced reactor, a molten salt reactor, uses fuels dissolved in molten salt coolants instead of the solid fuels used in traditional nuclear ... Flow Loop Test Bed allows for ...

It also bears watching whether the market shows a preference toward nuclear energy systems, which include pebble bed reactors that use tri-structural isotropic coated fuel; SMRs that use only a ...

Since the construction of the first commercial light water nuclear power plants (LWR ... into fuel assemblies for loading into the reactor. A 12′ SiGa fuel assembly, demonstrating the ability ...