Compared to current methods of producing nuclear energy, thorium:
- produces significantly more energy per ton
- produces significantly less waste
- the waste is significantly less dangerous (cools down in x00 years, instead of x0000 years)
Thorium has only one actual physical advantage, and that is that it can do breeding with slow neutrons rather than fast ones. This is a technicality and has lots of complications.
If you are not doing a breeder, uranium is just fine.
[0]:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optoelectric_nuclear_battery
I'll let you do that first. Please do it somewhere remote kay? :D
They produce very little power (W).
> By 2003 the U.S. Navy had accumulated over 5,400 "reactor years" of accident-free experience, and operated more than 80 nuclear-powered ships.
They've been sailing nuclear subs since the 1950s without major safety incident. The big carriers supply grid power when they're docked in Hawaii.
> Lt. Cmdr. Craig Quigley, a Navy spokesman, responded: ″We did not try to cover anything up. Everything about this incident was properly reported through Navy channels.
That's neither a cover-up, nor damning evidence that the navy cannot safely operate reactors.