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