> Does Thorium eliminate this risk? sigh (I hear this too often.) No, it doesn't. Thorium in conventional, solid fuel reactors is useless. Also, convention

> Does Thorium eliminate this risk? sigh (I hear this too often.) No, it doesn't. Thorium in conventional, solid fuel reactors is useless. Also, conventional, solid fuel reactors are a relatively dumb idea. We need better reactors. We have known that since around 1954. One particular design of a more efficient, safer, and likely cheaper reactor would benefit from being fuelled with Thorium. But it's about the reactor, not the Thorium! By the way, Chernobyl and Fukushima were very different events. Different reactors, different physics, different ourcome. Don't get hung up on Thorium, learn something about reactor physics instead.