In boost to India’s N-security, NTPC, CCTE explore development & deployment of thorium-based fuel ANEEL: DAE
Published on: Feb. 11, 2026, 11:02 p.m. | Source: The Indian Express
Clean Core Thorium Energy, only the second American company to have secured an export license from the US Department of Energy (DAE) to sell nuclear technology to India in nearly two decades, has developed a thorium-based fuel, called ANEEL (Advanced Nuclear Energy for Enriched Life) — a combination of thorium with small amounts of enriched uranium that can be deployed in the country’s Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors at scale, improving safety and proliferation resistance as well as reducing nuclear waste.
