PBMR (Pty) Ltd and Westinghouse sign protection system design contract

ByRod Adams December 20, 2005July 19, 2020

PBMR (Pty) Ltd continues to make progress in its effort to build a demonstration pebble bed reactor by 2010. In its latest step in the long journey, the company has signed a $2.6 Million USD contract with Westinghouse Electric Company for the basic design of the PBMR instrumentation and protection system. The work has an expected completion date of the end of 2007. You can find the company press release on the topic at
http://www.pbmr.co.za/index.asp?Content=10&MState=DT&Article=68

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Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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