The invention discloses a rolling and 
pickling process of a wide 
zirconium plate. The rolling and 
pickling process comprises the steps of plate blank heating, rough rolling, hot coil box 
machining, finish rolling, coiling, 
welding, 
pickling annealing, pickling and coiling. According to the process, the temperatures of the first heating section, the second heating section and the soaking section are controlled in a 
heating furnace, so that a 
zirconium plate blank is heated more sufficiently, various properties of the plate blank are more stable in the subsequent rolling process, and meanwhile, the 
heating time in the furnace is shortened; mandrel-free coiling is conducted on a rough-rolled intermediate blank, then uncoiling is conducted to convert the intermediate blank into an upper surface and a lower surface so as to eliminate a head-
tail temperature difference, enable the temperature of the 
plant blank to be more balanced and improve the thin specification and deformation resistance of a 
zirconium plate, two-stage pickling is adopted in a pickling process, aurous is added into 
nitric acid and 
hydrofluoric acid, the temperature change amplitude is reduced, spray-type pickling is changed, and therefore, the pickling process is more sufficient, 
oxide skin treatment is more thorough, small pits can be prevented from appearing on the surface of the zirconium plate, and the surface quality of the zirconium plate is improved.