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

For this purpose, Eskom formed the PBMR company (“Pebble Bed Modular Reactor”) – and the research focused on how enriched uranium in pebble form inside a graphite ball as big as a cricket ball could ...

Thank you for the opportunity to brief the House on a very difficult matter concerning the future of the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) project. Without going into too much detail right now, ...

and high temperature gas cooled reactor technology in the form of the pebble bed modular reactor, being developed in South Africa by an international group of companies including BNFL.

Moving toward the goal of having an operational molten salt nuclear reactor in the next decade, Southern Company and the Idaho National Laboratory have completed the inaugural run of a first-of ...

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has cleared a major hurdle in making a Generation IV nuclear reactor practical. Using a new process, a team has developed a new way of processing fuel ...

Chinese nuclear engineers have discovered a critical inefficiency issue in Nasa’s lunar nuclear reactor design – but, they claim, minor structural adjustments could slash fuel consumption by ...

Russia's Rosatom has begun assembling the RITM-200 reactor vessel for the Leningrad nuclear-powered icebreaker, bringing the total number of RITM reactor units currently being produced at its ...

Ontario Energy Minister Stephen Lecce says the Darlington small modular reactor will be the first of its kind in the G7. The province is ultimately planning for four small modular reactors to be ...

Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle 3 and 4 are the only new reactors that have been built in the U.S. in over 30 years. At the start, Georgia Power executives claimed that, unlike the first two ...

Scientists at the INL have found a new recipe for energy through their Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE). The MCRE project is testing a new type of nuclear reactor that uses fuel made of a ...