What sucks is that about the time coal becomes a hot commodity china will have moved on to thorium reactors instead do to the us doe incompetence in handling osk ridge molyen salt reactor potential in the early 70s due to cronyism...
The problem with nuclear power in this country currently isn't the process used, or the availability of fuel. We have plenty of uranium to meet our nuclear energy needs into the foreseeable future. The problem currently is the perceived safety, which is what the environmental movement used to shut down the nuclear power industry and is using currently to shut down coal fired power plants using the “global warming” hoax. Thorium reactors create a similar amount of radioactive waste as uranium based solutions. The advantage is that Thorium is not a rare commodity, but that does not sit well with Democrat cronies who want to maintain high energy prices.
We have the technology and the resources to be “energy independent”. But the army of sheeple who are mustered by their leftist crony capitalist masters manage to shut down every option presented. Their masters have concluded that energy produced needs to be carefully throttled so that supply and demand will remain within a certain range to maintain its value. Wind and solar are no threat because neither is actually a viable source of reliable power and they are also a convenient means to funnel tax payer dollars into the hands of the those who contribute to the Democrats.