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• Pebble-bed reactor loses funding

  PBMR to lay off 75% of staff The South African government will stop funding research and development work on the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR). About 600 of the 800 staff will be let go which is expected to trigger an exodus of nuclear expertise from the country. Public Enterprise Minister Barbara Hogan told Bloomberg wire service from Cape Town Feb 18 the government can no longer afford to fund... Posted Feb 25 2010, 10:45 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: PBMR, pebble bed, South Africa, Eskom

• PBMR joins forces with China on pebble bed technology

  It's a quantum leap in overcoming the "not invented here" paradigm Hat tip to Rod Adams at South Africa and China have agreed to joint development of pebble bed reactor technology A press release from Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Pty) Ltd ( PBMR ) of South Africa indicates that firm has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Beijing on 26 March 2009 between the Chinese and the South... Posted Mar 30 2009, 10:08 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: PBMR, China, pebble bed

• Pebble bed fuel fabricated in South Africa

  Target application is Idaho’s Next Generation Nuclear Plant World Nuclear News reports that PBMR in South Africa has  successfully manufactured nuclear fuel “pebbles” at 9.6% enrichment for use in a planned high temperature gas cooled reactor (HTGR).  The company said the fuel design and fabrication milestone is linked to work on the U.S. Department of Energy's Next Generation Nuclear... Posted Jan 18 2009, 02:50 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: PBMR, South Africa

• China launches Pebble Bed at Shandong

  High temperature gas cooled reactor design is being developed at Tsinghua University China's Huaneng Group has launched a demonstration of its PBMR nuclear power project, at a plant in Shandong Province according to an English language report on CCTV. Parties involved in the project signed agreements in Beijing on Oct 7. The HTR-PM project, which stands for ""High Temperature Gas-cooled... Posted Oct 11 2008, 12:24 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: PBMR, China

• For Mitsubishi size doesn't matter

  Firm will start making large forgings and may invest in Pebble Bed  Reuters reports that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) plans to get into the business of manufacturing large forgings for nuclear reactors including its own 1,700 MWe PWR .  It joins firms in Korea, France, and the U.K. who are seeking to gain market share in this field. The only firm making the components now is Japan Steel... Posted May 27 2008, 11:03 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: PBMR, Mitsubishi

• How will Idaho lab build NGNP?

  Answer - two heads may be better than one The Idaho National Laboratory ( INL ) is facing a formidable challenge with the release of a request for information (RFI) earlier this month by the Department of Energy (DOE). The government wants to hear from firms that think they can build the Next Generation Nuclear Plant ( NGNP ) which is most likely going to be a high temperature gas cooled reactor, possibly... Posted Apr 29 2008, 10:44 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: PBMR, NGNP, Idaho National Laboratory

• PBMR reactor design gets on track

  A commercial reactor could be in operation by 2013 After a series of fits and starts development of the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) appears to be getting back on track.  According to wire service reports in South Africa the demonstration reactor design is completed, and construction is due to start next year, with the first fuel to be loaded four years later. If successful, another 10 plants... Posted Mar 23 2008, 12:06 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: PBMR

• PBMR headed for Idaho?

  Process heat applications could drive the project South Africa’s fourth-generation nuclear power technology, the pebble-bed modular reactor ( PBMR ), has a real chance that it could be demonstrated, in a process heat application, at the Idaho National Laboratory ( INL ) near Idaho Falls, ID, according to a report in Creamer's Engineering News.  The CEO of PBMR Ltd. told Creamers an upcoming... Posted Mar 14 2008, 12:52 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: PBMR, Idaho

• PBMR seeks Mitsubishi investment in new reactor

  Demonstration plants are expensive South Africa has asked for funding from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan to finance all or part of 24 small nuclear power installations, at 160 Mw each, to be built by the pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR) project. They will need a lot of money because the rollout of this completely new reactor design goes far beyond building a prototype. The report was published... Posted Dec 25 2007, 05:21 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: PBMR, NGNP, Idaho National Laboratory, Mitsubishi

• Summer is over - there's still some nuclear news

  August is a slow month, but there were a few nuclear issues Summer is a time for vacations and taking advantage of the fine weather. That's mostly what I did, so this is a long post that catches up on a lot of the nuclear news that took place anyway. Many of the links from news sources have expired so readers will hopefully excuse the lack of them in these reports. EnergySolutions Bids for USEC The... Posted Sep 08 2007, 10:45 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: PBMR, Utah legislature, USEC, Toshiba, Fluor, NGNP, Energy Solutions

• PBMR Manufacturing Suspended

  Paperwork is the problem A setback to the pebble bed modular reactor (PMBR) project has been revealed in the annual report of the state-owned entity developing these small-scale, high temperature nuclear power plants. In the annual report to Parliament this week, the chief executive of PMBR Limited, a subsidiary of Eskom, Jaco Kriek, wrote that an instruction was given to Eskom during the year by the... Posted Sep 07 2007, 07:19 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: PBMR, pebble bed, South Africa

• Westinghouse moves out on four reactors for China

  Plus staking its claims to PBMR reactor technologies and for NGNP The ink is dry on a contract between Westinghouse and the State Nuclear Power Technology Company of China (SNPTC) to build four AP1000 nuclear plants in that country. The announcement comes one day after Westinghouse announced its acquisition of IST Nuclear (ISTN), a provider of services to South Africa's Pebble Bed Modular Reactor Read... Posted Aug 10 2007, 04:30 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: PBMR, AP100, China, hydrogen, Westinghouse