Comment Re:Country run by oil barons does nothing!!! (Score 1, Informative) 195
The reactors you're currently familiar with were _designed_ to have the 'radioactive waste' problem - it's what makes them useful for manufacturing atom bombs. Thorium reactors don't have that problem.
Thorium reactors have been around nearly as long as Uranium reactors. One operated for 20 years in the USA from the 1950s to the 1970s. The only reason they were never fully developed was political, not technical (they needed those bombs!):
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
FWIW, we could have got them working and be running the county on unlimited, safe energy for much less than (eg.) the cost of the F35 program. If there was any political willpower.