Let's not forget that the technology is relatively unexplored. No matter how clean; nobody is going to use something that simply doesn't work. Funding is the on

Let's not forget that the technology is relatively unexplored. No matter how clean; nobody is going to use something that simply doesn't work. Funding is the only way to improve that, but it's definitely not as peachy as the article tries to make it look. The technology is not mature enough to take to your local congressman (unless you're after funding for research). Also, generation IV uranium reactors (e.g. PBR) are designed to be passively safe, although expensive. Thorium reactors will need to be safe and most of all cheap - we've become quite efficient at splitting uranium during all the years that thorium has been ignored. A reactor needs to be economically viable before it is built.