New age nuclear | COSMOS magazine

This is a really long article, so you may want to skip to the end if you want to get right to the point.   What’s so cool about Thorium is how it breaks down as opposed to Uranium.  It’s waste products also remain dangerously radioactive for only 5% of the time of Uranium byproducts. (500 years vs. 10,000)  As if that wasn’t enough, there is also the possibility that Thorium-based reactor technology could be used to “incinerate” the waste products of traditional nuclear reactors, cleaning up much of their mess.  Oh yea, and the design is incapable of a meltdown. (at least the ADS type…)