South Africa requires safe affordable distributed base load energy, one way to achieve this is use nuclear power integrated with renewable energy sources on a decentralized basis. This suggests the development of its own micro modular reactor, supply towns, small communities, mines and processing plants. Large Light Water Reactors (LWRs) are expensive require large infrastructure development. A...

The deployment of advanced reactors of the type proposed for Generation IV will require a new strategy for licensing and demonstration. One of the requirements for NRC certification is that for technologies, for which there is not a regulatory history or an experience base, demonstration plants are a requirement. The current regulatory process as codified 10 CFR Parts 50, 51 and 52 has to be me...

Modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (MHTGR) has distinct advantages in the sense of the inherent safety, economy property, high electricity efficiency, potential usage for hydrogen production, and etc. Chinese design of MHTGR, named as High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor-Pebble bed Module (HTR-PM), based on the technology and experiences of the HTR-10, is under the standard design phase...