Worldwide, there is significant interest in the development of small and medium modular reactors (SMRs). “At the moment there are 11 countries developing about 50 SMR designs and four units are under construction or have a certified design,” said University of Pretoria Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Professor Johan Slabber at the SMR session of the National Nuclear Regulator’s second Nuclear Information Conference on Thursday. South Africa’s Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR), which was effectively terminated in 2010 (although the possibility of reactivating the project is being considered), was an SMR. (Slabber noted that the PBMR had started as a small reactor but was then enlarged because of economics.)
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