Thor Energy and IFE has successfully produced ThMox pellets in their nuclear fuel laboratory at Kjeller outside Oslo, Norway. The high quality pellets were loaded in two fuel pins and assembled into a test rig that was loaded into the OECD Halden research reactor and the irradiation is now under way.  Through this milestone, the […]

Thor Energy will strengthen its collaboration with Cambridge University by joining the Nuclear Industry Club and supporting a PhD candidate.

The UK has been one of the most important nuclear countries worldwide and will continue to be so in the future with its decision to build a new fleet of nuclear plants over the next decade. […]

Oslo, Norway, April 8th, 2015. The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) has signed an agreement to join the international consortium led by Thor Energy which is undertaking a sophisticated test-irradiation campaign in order to develop and qualify additive fuels for improved safety and operational performance in nuclear reactors. Central in the cooperation […]

Oslo, Norway, July 1st, 2013. The trial-operation of a thorium based nuclear fuel has commenced in Norway. An international consortium led by Thor Energy is undertaking a sophisticated test-irradiation campaign in order to quantify the performance of the fuel and to qualify it for commercial use. The first thorium fuel specimens have been loaded into […]

Oslo, Norway, 10th February, 2012. The Norwegian company, Thor Energy AS developing Thorium-based nuclear fuels, has initiated a 5-year Thorium Fuel Irradiation Campaign which includes the fabrication and test of commercial-type thorium fuel in a nuclear reactor. The irradiation project which was officially kicked-off last week will be run in the IFE (Institute for Energy […]