History of thorium cycle development
The thorium- based nuclear fuel cycle
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History of thorium cycle development
The thorium- based nuclear fuel cycle

Author : Dominique GRENÊCHE

Publication date: July 10, 2013 | Lire en français

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2. History of thorium cycle development

2.1 Experience using thorium in reactors

During the early years of civil nuclear power development in the 1950s and 1960s, a large number of ways of using thorium were explored, not only in the USA and the former USSR, but also in Europe and, to some extent, Asia .

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To illustrate the interest aroused by thorium in the early years of nuclear power development,...

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