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SA developing a world- first thorium fuel
A South African (SA) company is designing a safe helium-cooled nuclear reactor that will use a locally designed pebble-based thorium/uranium fuel, replacing uranium as the primary fuel
This will provide a safer environment, without meltdown risk, such as that experienced at the Fukushima reactor in Japan.
“The pebble fuel will be based on thorium, using
17 Jan 2017