Construction progresses on China’s High Temperature Pebble Bed Nuclear Reactor
The pouring of concrete for the basemat of the first HTR-PM unit – a demonstration high-temperature gas-cooled reactor – at Shidaowan in China’s Shandong province was recently completed. Another 19 of the small modular reactors could follow. HTR-PM are modular reactors that will be mainly factory mass produced. The first one is taking 5 years …