Pebble bed nuclear reactors have been getting a bit of attention lately:
* The Economist mentioned the South African plans for them in a favourable fashion in mid-June.
* China's version gets coverage here, and here.
* In South Africa, it seems there is some criticism about the amount of government money being put into the project, the cost of the program, and licensing delays with approval for the first demonstration reactor. It looks like they don't expect to start building until 2010 and then have it running by 2015. (Even so, I expect that around that time Australia will still be scratching around for safe places to pump CO2 into the ground at less than exorbitant expense.)
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