Putrajaya will allow Lynas to bring in raw materials that contain natural radioactive material and continue with its cracking and leaching activities until March 2026. This is provided that it complies with certain conditions including extracting the radioactive compound Thorium and ensuring the residue is below 1Bq/g.
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00:00 not a softening of position. Before this, our concern is we do not want the continuous
00:07 accumulation of radiative waste in Malaysia. And then, so we do not allow them to import
00:16 and do not allow them to process it because that will produce radiative waste. So with
00:25 the technology today that we are talking about, thorium extraction, they can either extract
00:32 thorium from the waste or they can extract from the feedstock, like the nitric concentrate.
00:38 So once they have extracted, then they go through cracking and leaching, there won't
00:43 be any radiative waste. The waste will be scheduled waste because it's under one bacterial
00:49 program. According to our expert, the thorium can be sold because especially fuel grade
00:56 thorium can be sold to other countries because it's fuel for those countries who have nuclear
01:06 power plant.
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