Nuklear Malaysia: 'We proposed thorium extraction, not Lynas'

The government's nuclear research agency today said the proposal to extract thorium from Lynas’ waste had come from the agency, not Lynas.

Nuklear Malaysia deputy director-general Muhammad Rawi Mohamed Zin, who is in charge of the agency’s research and technology development programme, said it pitched the proposal as “there is a market” for the radioactive material...