[bigbob]

Thorium reactors bring a number of advantages which have nothing to do with availability of uranium.

[AndyJackson]

Name them.

[AndyJackson]

Remember that the major costs of operating a nuclear reactor are not the fuel cycle costs, but the costs of quality, safety, safe operations and nuclear waste handling.

I will be the first to agree that it is over-regulated. I will however also stipulate that our history is replete with free marketeers who thought they could do it a lot cheaper only to get locked in regulatory hell and lose their shirts because they cut corners on necessary safety design features.