It seems these two guys have wildly differing sets of facts about thorium reactors.
Would be interesting to have an unbiased, scientific analysis with some actual numbers.
I really did not see any refutation of the potential of Thorium reactors. There was no real claim that the author was wrong per se just some issues raised that would dampen enthusiasm.
I don’t have a dog in this fight although one of my sons is a conventional nuclear reactor operator but my guess is nothing comes without problems and unintended consequences and that would include thorium reactors.
The way things have worked, it must be said, is that the following generations have to clean up the present generation’s mistakes. So we have to be careful about making big ones for our kids’ sakes.
Waste issues are primarily political not technical. Yuka Flats could safely hold all the waste we could general for hundreds of years. But getting it there is a huge political problem.