Green Options » PBMR http://greenoptions.com/tag/pbmr Posts tagged 'PBMR' Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:46:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en PBMR Contract - 4th Generation Nuclear Power Plant by 2014 http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/08/25/pbmr-contract-4th-generation-nuclear-power-plant-by-2014/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/08/25/pbmr-contract-4th-generation-nuclear-power-plant-by-2014/#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:46:22 +0000 Rod Adams http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/08/25/pbmr-contract-4th-generation-nuclear-power-plant-by-2014/ Simulated high temperature gas reactor pebblePBMR (Pty) Ltd. has taken one more step in its careful journey to build a new type of nuclear power plant - one whose heat will be produced in a continuously refreshed bed of high temperature spheres made of heavy metal and graphite.

On August 22, 2008, the company announced that it had signed a contract for engineering, procurement, project and construction management (EPCM) services to build a 165 MWe commercial scale, emission free, demonstration plant near Cape Town, South Africa. The approximate value of the contract is a quarter of a billion US dollars.

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