X-energy, controlled by billionaire Kam Ghaffarian, rakes in another $200 million to become the best-funded startup ...

This method is known as a pebble-bed reactor (PBR). This design can be cooled using similar methods as traditional nuclear ...

One such design is a high-temperature reactor with a pebble-bed module (HTR—PM). What is a Pebble-bed Module nuclear reactor?

It’s tens of thousands of triso particles packed into a sphere the size of a billiard ball, and it’s designed to work with the company’s pebble bed reactor that produces 1/8th the power of a ...

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 ...

Energy, which is developing advanced nuclear reactor and fuel technology, has closed its upsized Series C-1 financing round ...

The Xe-100 is a small high-temperature gas-cooled (HTGC) pebble-bed design. Each Xe-100 will generate 125 MWt and 50 MWe (Figure 2). As described on the company’s web site, four Xe-100 reactors ...

Sustainable energy solutions provider Blue Pointer Energy has expressed strong support for the renewed call to revive the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) project, following statements by ...

He was a member of a panel of experts appointed by the South African government to evaluate the pebble bed modular reactor, which has not published their report. He also co-edited International ...

Each reactor will generate 80MWe (electric) and 200MWt (thermal) and is designed to be installed in multi-unit plants with capacities ranging from 320MW to 960MW. Xe-100 is a pebble-bed, ...