AMPERA today announced its factory-built, scalable, supercritical nuclear energy system will be fueled by thorium procured ...

Ampera formed an Australian subsidiary to source thorium for its TRISO fuel programme, aiming to build a vertically integrated nuclear fuel chain. No reactor is operational yet.

On April 6, the indigenously designed and built Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu achieved its first criticality—the stage when a nuclear chain reaction can continue on ...