在钍核技术研发方面,美国是公认的先行者。早在上世纪50年代,美国就启动了相关研究,于1954年在宾夕法尼亚州建成世界首座钍基工业核电站。进入新世纪,利用钍资源,甚至以钍代铀,被很多国家看成是未来民用核能发展的新选择。据了解,美、俄、英、印等国近年均进行了不同程度的钍核技术研发。 In the thorium nuclear technology research and development, the United States is recognized as the pioneer. As early as the 1950s, the United States started the relevant research and built the world’s first thorium-based industrial nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania in 1954. Into the new century, the use of thorium resources, even thorium uranium, is considered by many countries as a new option for the development of civilian nuclear energy in the future. It is understood that the United States, Russia, Britain, India and other countries have conducted various degrees of thorium nuclear technology research and development in recent years.