Germany invested into Thorium in the second half of the last century. Turned out to be a bad investment.
Worst investment yet, was solar Energy.
PS: Fixed this for you. Sorry, did not know you are a bullshitter!
It started generating electricity on April 9, 1985, but did not receive permission from the atomic legal authorizing agency to feed electricity to the grid until November 16, 1985. It operated at full power in February 1987 and was shut down September 1, 1989.[1]