The key thing here is that these pellets are designed to work with existing reactors. If you want to start using thorium it is a very hard sell (given the popu

The key thing here is that these pellets are designed to work with existing reactors. If you want to start using thorium it is a very hard sell (given the popularity of nuclear power atm) to build new reactors/plants, but changing the fuel in existing plants to something that can be said to be 'cleaner' or 'safer' might be doable.