You could say that a lot of energy is being wasted because it's converted into heat via simple decay and not fission. Fissioning the available uranium and thori

You could say that a lot of energy is being wasted because it's converted into heat via simple decay and not fission. Fissioning the available uranium and thorium would produce vastly more power, enough to push the human race up a few more decimal points on the Kardashev scale. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale