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

SA was the world leader in small modular reactors before the project was shelved in 2010. Now the technology is making a ...

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

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 ...

NECSA has through the Multi Purpose Reactor Programme secured R1. 2bn from the government to sustain the nuclear medicine ...

Necsa wants to get back to the business of nuclear fuel manufacturing, start a pilot SMR project and diversify its radioisotope production ...

State-owned South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) has secured approval, as well as R1.2-billion in funding, from ...

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 ...

Small Modular Reactor (SMR) company X-energy has announced the close of its upsized Series C-1 funding round, raising a total ...

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 ...

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