• The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) is a particular design of pebble bed reactor developed by South African company PBMR (Pty) Ltd from 1994 until 2009...
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    The pebble-bed reactor (PBR) is a design for a graphite-moderated, gas-cooled nuclear reactor. It is a type of very-high-temperature reactor (VHTR), one...
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  • Small modular reactors (SMR) are much smaller than the current nuclear reactors (300 MWe or less) and have compact and scalable designs which propose...
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    HTGR reactors use helium coolant. The reactor core can be either a "prismatic block" (reminiscent of a conventional reactor core) or a "pebble-bed" core...
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  • HTR-PM (category Pebble bed reactors)
    球床模块式高温气冷堆核电站) is a Chinese small modular nuclear reactor. It is a high-temperature gas-cooled (HTGR) pebble-bed generation IV reactor evolved from the HTR-10 prototype...
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  • design) Pebble bed reactor AVR reactor (1966-1988) THTR-300 (1983-1989) HTR-10 (2003-today) HTR-PM (under construction) Pebble bed modular reactor (design)...
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    professor at RWTH Aachen University and the main developer of the pebble bed reactor design, which was originally invented by Farrington Daniels. Schulten's...
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  • South African scientist and engineer best known for his work on Pebble Bed modular reactor research and development. He was CEO of the Australian Nuclear...
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    form of the pebble bed reactor design was invested in by the South African government; one such project was the Pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR). In February...
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    HTR-10 (category Pebble bed reactors)
    HTR-10 is a 10 MWt prototype high-temperature gas-cooled, pebble-bed reactor at Tsinghua University in China. Construction began in 1995, achieving its...
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  • Nuclear Reactor". Fortune. Retrieved 2021-10-12. Conca, James (2017-03-27). "X-Energy Steps Into The Ring With Its Advanced Pebble Bed Modular Nuclear...
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    pebble-bed modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactor HTR-PM was connected to the grid in 2021. Economic factors of scale mean that nuclear reactors...
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    nuclear reactor. In South Africa, Steenkampskraal Thorium's planned 100 MW HTMR-100 NPP reactor is based on a variant of the Pebble bed modular reactor. In...
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    reached its full capacity at 10 MWth in 2003 using pebble fuel. A 400 MWth pebble bed modular reactor demonstration plant was designed by PBMR Pty for deployment...
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    national electricity supplier, Eskom. The Pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR) was a particular design of pebble-bed reactor under development by South African...
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  • International Airport Passenger Rail Agency of South African (PRASA) Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Pty) Limited (PBMR) Perishable Products Export Control Board...
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    Joe Bonometti NASA / Naval Postgraduate School YouTube Pebble Bed Advanced High Temperature Reactor Thorium Remix LFTR in 5 Minutes and other LFTR Documentaries...
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  • X-energy (redirect from Xe-100 reactor)
    nuclear reactor and fuel design engineering company. It is developing a Generation IV high-temperature gas-cooled pebble-bed nuclear reactor design. It...
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    a prototype high-temperature reactor (HTR) to use the TRISO pebble fuel produced by the AVR, an experimental pebble bed operated by VEW (Vereinigte Elektrizitätswerke...
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    all reactors need to be shut down for refueling; for example, pebble bed reactors, RBMK reactors, molten-salt reactors, Magnox, AGR and CANDU reactors allow...
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    MPa. The cancelled pebble bed modular reactor was intended to be coupled with a helium CCGT. Future nuclear (Generation IV reactors) may employ CCGT for...
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  • The Gas Turbine Modular Helium Reactor (GT-MHR) is a class of nuclear fission power reactor designed that was under development by a group of Russian...
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  • President Thabo Mbeki's Pebble bed modular reactor programme and the emergence of "Nuclear-1" (a project to build additional nuclear reactors in South Africa)...
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  • Africa's PBMR Pty for the construction of a pilot fuel plant for the pebble bed modular reactor project. Other projects include construction of dry spent fuel...
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  • Analysis and Optimization of the Power Conversion System for the Modular Pebble Bed Reactor System" (PDF). Technology Review, March 5, 2012: Graphene Battery...
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    Magnox reactor exists in North Korea at the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center. While the gas cooled Magnox, AGR and pebble bed reactors (Such...
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    Next Generation Nuclear Plant (category Nuclear power reactor types)
    South Africa's pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR), in 2012, INL approved a design similar to Areva's SC-HTGR (formerly "Antares") reactor as the chosen...
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    States, Europe and Asia. In June 2000, BNFL took a 22.5% stake in Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Pty) Ltd in South Africa. In January 2003, the research and development...
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    National Antarctic Programme is formed. Eskom announces that a Pebble bed modular reactor will be built at Koeberg (this is later abandoned). The Vredefort...
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  • authorisation granted to Eskom to build a demonstration module Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) at Koeberg, Cape Town. 2004 The clean-up operation for...
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