Pebble Bed Modular Reactors

Nuclear energy project’s last-gasp bid to secure a client and its future as workforce is scaled back.

The surprise resignation by the CEO of the controversial Pebble Bed Modular Reactor is not because of slashed government funding, the company insists.

Public Enterprises Minster Alec Erwin must justify why he has committed billions of taxpayers’ money to an extremely experimental technology.

South Africa’s Cabinet has approved the country’s nuclear policy, enabling the controversial technology to play a greater role in alleviating a critical power shortage.