Sentences with phrase «pebble bed reactors»

New generations of nuclear reactors like the molten salt and pebble bed reactors promise to make nuclear energy even more safe, efficient and cheap.

That is still a viable option, in fact more so today, because new systems, such as the pebble bed reactors produce considerably less waste.

The technologies have names like molten salt reactors, pebble bed reactors and fast reactors.

Pebble bed reactors have a high enough temperature that they can combine water and CO2 into liquid fuels in the future.

We hear a lot about solar, lunar, wind, and geothermal but little about pebble bed reactors.

Also water is not required for the gas cooled reactors, nor the safest geniv which the pebble bed reactor.

Not exact matches

China has or is building heavy - water reactors from Canada, «evolutionary» pressurized - water reactors from France, pebble - bed reactors tested in South Africa, and even is working on reactors that would use molten salt for cooling and thorium for fuel.

@ 8 & 9 China and SA seem to be advanicng well with high temp gas cooled pebble bed genIV reactor.

One is found in a new generation of meltdown proof nuclear like some of the pebble - bed reactor designs.

You can find a rich archive of alternative nuclear stories here, including thorium, molten salt, pebble beds, fast reactors, modular reactors, fusion and more.

Is that a rational balancing of concerns or are those voices so ignorant of the progress being made by engineers in South Africa, China, France and elsewhere to take the pebble bed nuclear reactor to the commercial deployment stage in this next decade.