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Thor Energy AS is a holding company that owns and operates a nuclear power plant for the generation of electricity. It is a technology company developing nuclear fuel technology based on thorium as raw material as an alternative to uranium. Its technology development activities are undertaken with the vision that thorium-based fuels will be an attractive option for both light water reactor operators and nuclear energy policy makers alike. The firm develops thorium based oxide fuel and has established a consortium that finances and ensures the implementation of irradiation project with the objective to qualify thorium fuel for use in existing and future generation’s light water reactors. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.

NorSun AS manufactures and markets monocrystalline silicon ingots and wafers. The firm produces single crystal silicon wafers from polysilicon. Its core industry domain is the solar energy segment, in particular the polysilicon sourcing to wafer slicing portion of the photovoltaic value chain. It uses the Czochralski process whereby polysilicon is melted in a crystal puller, a seed crystal is lowered into the melt and a single crystal ingot is slowly pulled out of the molten metal, thereby establishing the atomic order. The company was founded by Alf Bjørseth in 2005 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.