Hard disagree, what about the Land? Wind and solar energy end up being dependent on massive tracts of land that would be better off as wilds but instead must support some level of constant human interaction to support the wind and solar repair and maintenance. A thorium nuclear power plant is capable of out producing all of them more efficiently (because sometimes the sun don’t shine and the wind don’t blow) while taking up a fraction of the footprint of either. Not to mention every nuclear accident ever is more or less a steam explosion because of the necessity for pressurized water in a uranium light water reactor. Thorium reactors simply do not have the same capacity for explosive failure because they do not require super heated pressurized water to act as a medium for the heat from the radiation. Also the waste from Thorium reactors has a much shorter half life than what comes out of Light water reactors and could theoretically be used in other applications including other kinds of reactors.
Hard disagree, what about the Land? Wind and solar energy end up being dependent on massive tracts of land that would be better off as wilds but instead must support some level of constant human interaction to support the wind and solar repair and maintenance. A thorium nuclear power plant is capable of out producing all of them more efficiently (because sometimes the sun don’t shine and the wind don’t blow) while taking up a fraction of the footprint of either. Not to mention every nuclear accident ever is more or less a steam explosion because of the necessity for pressurized water in a uranium light water reactor. Thorium reactors simply do not have the same capacity for explosive failure because they do not require super heated pressurized water to act as a medium for the heat from the radiation. Also the waste from Thorium reactors has a much shorter half life than what comes out of Light water reactors and could theoretically be used in other applications including other kinds of reactors.