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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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