Thorium Explained - The future of Cheap and Clean Energy?

Thorium is often held up as one of the best paths forward for achieving a mix of cheap and clean energy generation for our grid.

Even former presidential candidate Andrew Yang was pushing for thorium reactors along with wind and solar.

Many today are scared off of nuclear energy because of disasters like 3 Mile Island , Chernobyl and Fukushima .

The waste from a thorium reactor is radioactive for about 500 years , compared to up to 10,000 .

Because it's more abundant than uranium, it can be turned into a usable fuel, and dramatically reduces the amount of nuclear waste.

Throwing reactors are safer because the reaction can easily be stopped and they don't operate under extreme pressure.

In May of 2020 , the US Department of Energy just started a new project called the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program , which is funding $230 million into next Gen. nuclear.

Bill Gates remains convinced that nuclear energy is our single greatest weapon to combat climate change in the immediate future and requires significant investment into new designs.