Quote from: AntiVigilante on June 24, 2011, 08:18:02 PM

Quote from: lemonginger on June 24, 2011, 08:07:03 PM

The problem with nuclear energy (besides the scale issues, of which I agree with Jaime Frontero on) is that we have to figure out a secure way to store the waste that is beyond any time scale we can reasonably envision. Because of this, we essentially are creating incredibly toxic management problems for societies that we have no idea of. I believe it is an unfair burden for future generations to have to deal with, when we do not know what their capacity to deal with it will be, just so we can have more energy now.

Thorium is wasteless. It uses Uranium as a catalyst.

That's not quite true. Thorium does have some hazardous waste products, but none that are nearly as long lived or as hazardous as plutonium itself.