Thorium is Borium
Thorium is yet another nuclear "idea" being embraced by the struggling nuclear industry to somehow retain their market share of the Energy pie...
The USA should move "full steam ahead" toward Solar (of all flavors) while India and or China spend Trillions on new nuclear R & D; racing Germany (plus soon France and Japan) to Energy Independence powered by the SUN!
Mankind needs to work together and eliminate Wars for Energy and minerals.
YES, Solar (of all flavors) and especially Solar from Space!
These books explain (in detail) how:
The High Frontier by Gerard K. O'Neill,
Colonies In Space by A. Heppenheim??er.
The Third Industrial Revolution by G. Harry Stine
The Space Enterprise by Philip Robert Harris
Mining the Sky by John S. Lewis