• Utilized in modern pebble bed reactor designs (burnup limited to ~11% FIMA) • Extensive development and testing since the 1970s in many countries • Good fission product retention in the kernel, but results in formation of CO(g) during irradiation – Contributes to internal gas pressure – Kernel migration, CO corrosion of SiC. 7

And in December, Pebble suffered another blow when a local Alaska Native corporation set aside 44,000 acres of land as a conservation easement, protecting it from mining-related activities.

Summary On January 30, 2023, EPA issued a Final Determination under its Clean Water Act Section 404 (c) authority to limit the use of certain waters in the Bristol …

The Pebble company had proposed building an open-pit copper and gold mine about 17 miles from Iliamna Lake. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied Pebble a federal permit two years ago, and …

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a multi-scale model, which can predict the macroscopic (pebble-bed) and microscopic (pebble) temperature distributions under both steady-state and transient conditions. …

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On January 30, 2023, after over a dozen years of administrative review, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") vetoed the proposed Pebble Mine, granting petitions filed in 2010 under...

Pebble Mine 2022 Year in Review: "Goodnight Soon!". The end of embattled Bristol Bay mining scheme is in sight, as EPA recommends veto long sought by Bristol Bay Native Tribes—and funding …

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Fuel loading at the Shidaowan high-temperature gas-cooled reactor pebble-bed module (HTR-PM) in China began in the spring of 2021. It involved putting 870,000 spherical TRISO fuel elements into ...

The proposed Pebble Mine site, pictured in 2014. ... "Where that mine is is the spawning beds of the greatest salmon-producing rivers in the world," Curyung tribal chief Tom Tilden said ...

The pebble-bed reactor (PBR) is one type of HTR. The PBR core consists of a cylindrical vessel with a conical funnel at the bottom that is attached to an exit pipe (Fig. 1). The vessel is filled with 6 cm-diameter spherical TRISO fuel pebbles that have a graphite outer casing and contain uranium micropellets.

gravel, aggregate of more or less rounded rock fragments coarser than sand ( i.e., more than 2 mm [0.08 inch] in diameter). Gravel beds in some places contain accumulations of heavy metallic ore minerals, such as cassiterite (a major source of tin), or native metals, such as gold, in nuggets or flakes. Gravels are widely used building materials.

The move to ban disposal of mining wastes near the site of the proposed Pebble mine, made under the Clean Water Act, protects a valuable salmon fishery. Share full article. 71.

The pebble bed high temperature gas-cooled reactor is a promising generation-IV reactor, which uses large fuel pebbles and helium gas as coolant. The …

For traditional pebble beds, taking the HTR-10 pebble bed as an example, the bottom structure is designed as a cone type. The upper part is a cylinder of 1.8 m and 2.5 m in diameter and height respectively. Studies have shown that the flow uniformity can be improved if an arc-shaped configuration is adopted at the bottom of the pebble bed [7].

Northern Dynasty Minerals began exploration of the Pebble deposit in 2002, securing mining rights for a project on 186 square miles of Alaska state land, including an open pit spanning 2 to 3 ...

Chose the guy with the best combination of mining, manufacturing and population bonuses as these can already make an impact; Also appointed governors for Luna, Mercury, Mars, and Ganymede in order to start getting the newly appointed Civilian Admins familiar with their Jobs. ... Pebble Bed Reactor Technology; Fuel Consumption: …

With the model validated, the design space for the PtH concept is investigated by varying the heat transfer area and material properties of the pebble bed. Design solutions with high energy efficiency above 90% and power density over 5.5 MW/m3 are presented for magnetic as well as non-magnetic materials at laboratory and utility scale.

This case study demonstrates the steady-state simulation of a compressed air network used in the mining industry. ... This case study demonstrates the steady-state simulation of the heat transfer through a packed pebble bed. Of particular importance… Read More » …

Pebble bed reactors (PBR) are graphite-moderated, gas-cooled, nuclear reactors. Their concept originated in Germany during the 1950s (Fig. 1). PBR reactors use spherical fuel elements (having 6 cm diameter) called pebbles. The pebbles are made of graphite and contain thousands of micro fuel particles. These fuel particles consist of a …

The proposed Pebble Mine has made international headlines for years, in part due to the heated opposition it has ignited in the Bristol Bay region. The area is home to the largest sockeye salmon.

The Demise of the pebble bed modular reactor. BY STEVE THOMAS | 22 JUNE 2009. In February 2009, Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) Ltd., an eponymously named South African company announced a major change of strategy. After 10 years of development it said it was abandoning plans to build a full-size 165-megawatt …

It affects a 300-square-mile area of the Pebble deposit, a significantly broader area than Pebble has applied with the Corps to mine over 20 years. EPA officials said the agency wanted to prevent ...

For the future pebble bed examinations, Indonesian hot cell structure is possible to perform these examinations. ... X-ray radiography test is useful for exa mining the material's structure and ...

A rare "veto" from the EPA effectively halted the proposed Pebble Mine after two decades of disputes. Teresa Nowakowski. Daily Correspondent. February 7, 2023. Anglers in Iliamna, Alaska ...

Quantifying fission product yield uncertainty contribution to reactor burnup calculation is an important aspect of pebble-bed High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (pebble-bed HTGR) uncertainty analysis. In this work, uncertainty propagation of fission product yield to pebble-bed HTGR burnup calculation is conducted. Uncertainty of …

The fuel is in the form of small spheres (hence the name 'pebble bed'), 60 mm in diameter, each containing 7 g of low (8.5%) enriched uranium fuel, coated with four layers of ceramics and ...

the fuel management processes in a multi-pass Pebble to pebble bed systems. A new development version of Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR). WIMS comprises a the code …