And what the author handily omits: Since the Thorium fuel cycle is based around transmuting Thorium into U-233, which is fissionable, Thorium reactors can be a

And what the author handily omits: Since the Thorium fuel cycle is based around transmuting Thorium into U-233, which is fissionable, Thorium reactors can be a less complicated that Uranium enrichment pathway to the bomb. True, not the one the military likes because of U-232 impurities, but good enough for rogue states and other malicious actors to blow up a couple of blocks of a city. And that is why Thorium is actually tightly controlled. And why there won't be a Thorium revival.