The document begins, " Exelon Corp . believes that we have found a technology that possesses the characteristics necessary to successfully compete in a deregulated environment in the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor ( PBMR ), a design under development in South Africa ."
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A 400 MWth pebble bed modular reactor demonstration plant was designed by PBMR Pty for deployment in South Africa but withdrawn in 2010, and a consortium of Russian institutes is designing a 600 MWth GT-MHR ( prismatic block reactor ) in cooperation with General Atomics.
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With an earlier focus on South Africa's Pebble bed modular reactor, in 2012 Idaho National Laboratory approved a design similar to Areva's SC-HTGR ( formerly Antares ) reactor as the chosen Next Generation Nuclear Power Plant HTGR to be deployed as a prototype by 2021.
