"...a tonne of the silvery metal – named after the Norse god of thunder, who also gave us Thor’s day or Thursday - produces as much energy as 200 tonnes of uranium, or 3,500,000 tonnes of coal.
A mere fistful would light London for a week.Thorium eats its own hazardous waste. It can even scavenge the plutonium left by uranium reactors,
Thorium is so common that miners treat it as a nuisance, a radioactive by-product if they try to dig up rare earth metals. The US and Australia are full of the stuff. So are the granite rocks of Cornwall."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/7970619/Obama-could-kill-fossil-fuels-overnight-with-a-nuclear-dash-for-thorium.htmlSo, let's get the UK in at the ground floor on this one.

Er no, maybe not:
"The UK has shown little appetite for what it regards as a "huge paradigm shift to a new technology"."
Yes let's keeping throwing money at windmills instead. Who needs this new-fangled stuff?
