Maybe Thorium reactors will change the situation of energy production, though I have more faith in fusion power.
To me, it sounds like a terrible thing to be building thousands of new nuclear plants on the world.
http://www.pressenza.com/2013/08/thorium-reactors-and-nuclear-weapons-proliferation-the-promise-and-peril-of-thorium/
Although I suppose it won't make a difference for countries that already have lots of nukes: like the USA, China, Russia, UK, France, India, Pakistan. Together they have enough bombs to destroy the world many times over.
If they would switch to thorium power, it would reduce the CO2 emissions quite a lot, and it would buy us time to find a less dangerous solution for the rest of the world.
I wonder, would that work? Or would it merely prevent the search for a less dangerous solution.
After all... building thorium plants costs a lot of money and once the energy starts flowing, why would you need to search for another solution?
And then, why would the rest of the world bother about it either?
So I think it would be better to take the chance we get and to do it right from the start! What do you say people 
