In South Africa, what is small is wonderful ' small is beautiful'. The project of the nuclear power operators is safe, economical and tiny

In South Africa, the nuclear operator Eskom has decide to study the pebble bed reactor called like that because of the fuel constituted of pebble,size of a base-ball ball including micro spheres of uranium oxide. This small nuclear is competitive with the big thermal power plants. The economic factors are good, the public acceptance is good and this reactor has the capacity to resist to an accident susceptible to release radioactivity in environment. (N.C.)