Steenkampskraal Thorium Limited (STL), through its associate company Thor Energy, is the only company in the world manufacturing and qualifying thorium-containing fuels for use in light water reactors (LWRs), and is developing important intellectual property in the process. Thor Energy will complete the five-year qualification procedure of the pellet fuel in 2018, and then plans to commence the licensing and commercialisation of thorium fuels. STL owns about 12,50% of Thor Energy in Norway. Thor Energy’s programme is to manufacture and qualify thorium-containing fuels for use in the light water reactors which constitute the majority of the world’s nuclear reactors. The company has also made significant progress with the overall design of its HTMR-100 small modular pebble-bed reactor and the designs of several important components. These include its core structures, the reactor pressure vessel, the steam generator, the double-set isolation valves and the fuel loading and unloading devices. STL is also designing a factory to make the pebble fuel for this helium-cooled pebble-bed reactor.

Contact David Boyes, Steenkampskraal Thorium, Tel 012 667-2141, david.boyes@thorium100.com

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