That argument doesn't fly for reactor research in germany, where Thorium was pursued for the exactly same reason, namely not being able to make weapons grade pl

That argument doesn't fly for reactor research in germany, where Thorium was pursued for the exactly same reason, namely not being able to make weapons grade plutonium. However all thorium based reactor designs tried here were seriously flawed (for example the AVR reactor went almost the way of Chernobyl when water leaked into the primary cooling cycle.. but luckily the reactor was running at an lower temperature at that point in time, so they only had to run the reactor for a year in reduced capacity to get the water out again). As for liability here.. it seems like it's unlimited liability here and at least one reactor operator company is owned by another state (Vattenfall iirc)