PBMR News (Nuclear)

There have been two recent Engineering News articles on the issue of the PBMR (Pebble Bed Modular Reactor). This one, which speaks of how the PBMR company is now also looking at providing advisory services to other countries and also how it plans to extend itself to becoming involved in the development of other nuclear technologies in SA (besides the PBMR technology) and how it would be involved on the design side of the development process. The other article informs us how Minister Barbara Hogan reaffirms that our government "remains committed to South Africa's pebble-bed modular reactor (PBMR) nuclear power programme." At the same time, Minister Hogan also clarified "that while the PBMR Company, like Eskom, fell under her department, the development of energy policy was the responsibility of the Department of Energy."