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The Atomic Show #138 – Jaco Kriek, CEO PBMR Pty LTD

July 9, 2009 By Rod Adams 2 Comments

Jaco Kriek has been the CEO of PBMR Pty LTD of South Africa for five years. On July 7, 2009 he spoke with me for nearly an hour about a wide range of topics.

The topics we discussed included the following:

  • History of PBMR as a stand alone company
  • Change in technical direction
  • Customer focused design efforts
  • Licensing challenges for unfamiliar nuclear technology
  • Potential for process heat supply market
  • Interest from petrochemical industry
  • Interest from American company talking about unit volumes in the thousands
  • PBMR as a national technical asset for South Africa

Hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did. PBMR has a unique role in the nuclear industry and might be pointing the way to new sources of revenues and new customers that have never before considered using atomic fission as their heat source.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/AtomicShowFiles/tpn_atomic_20090707_138.mp3

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Filed Under: Alternative energy, Atomic history, Atomic politics, Economics, Podcast Tagged With: gas cooled reactors, helium, PBMR, pebble bed reactors, process heat, SASOL

The Atomic Show #130 – Better Uses for Fissile Material

April 7, 2009 By Rod Adams

Kirk Sorensen, Charles Barton and Rod Adams got together for a long distance conversation inspired by President Obama’s speech about his commitment to reduce nuclear weapons stockpiles. That action will free up valuable material useful for many power plant applications.

It is important to understand – the president’s call is for a world free from nuclear weapons, not a nuclear-free world. There is an important difference.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/AtomicShowFiles/tpn_atomic_20090405_130.mp3

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Filed Under: Alternative energy, Atomic politics, Economics, Podcast Tagged With: fissile material, LFTR, pebble bed reactors, small reactors

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