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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 .
To illustrate the interest aroused by thorium in the early years of nuclear power development, the first international symposium devoted entirely to the thorium cycle was held in 1962 in the United States. The proceedings...
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