I heard about Thorium from one Andrew Yang interview on CNN last night for an alternative cleaner energy source. I didn’t know what it was so I looked it up.

So far the only thing I understand is that you can find more in the earth’s crust than Uranium because only 1 percent of Uranium found is useable vs. thorium is all usable. Also Uranium doesn’t need outside source to make it react and Thorium need outside energy source to make it react. So if I understand this, if there is a failure in a thorium reactor there should be no explosion vs Uranium will explode in a reactor failure. (Not really sure on that.)

So is this something we should be attempting to do to find quick energy sources to replace gas and coal for large cities where solar panels and wind turbines may not be an option ?