[Campion]

Looks like the reporter has established his or her knowledge level.

Maybe the sentence was supposed to read "then depleted uranium". A thorium reactor could burn depleted uranium by breeding it to plutonium-239, the same way it burns thorium by breeding it to U-233.

[fred2008]

Thorium reactors can burn most of our spent fuel while producing electricity.

LFTRS are a terrific solution to many problems.