Thorium might be the solution, but uranium is not. Solution to what? The coming energy crisis, also known as Peak Oil. There is currently no substitute for oil for our energy-based economies. Some believe that uranium based nuclear power is a possible solution. It is not.
The nuclear waste from uranium-based nuclear power is extremely dangerous for thousands of years. Even after decades of production there is still not even one long-term storage facility in the world. It is beyond immoral for us to expect countless future generations to deal with our nuclear waste. We can't assume that some technology will come to the rescue. Even if a storage facility is built we don't know if it will last (it probably won't).
Leave our nuclear waste for future generations to clean up? Leave thousands of tons of poisons for future generations to deal with? How selfish. How evil.
