Maybe a simultaneous eruption of Toba and Yellowstone might cool off the Earth.
Not quite true - it's more a case that the reactor types that are best suited to Thorium are also best suited to removing the major fission poisons on-line (notably Xenon-135). Doing so permits a vastly higher burn-up from the fuel, which in turn means you can burn up many of the Actinides in the process. If used in a conventional PWR-type design Thorium would only be a partial improvement - it's still bred to Uranium (233) and you still have the resultant fission products.Thorium reactors instead of Uranium reactors. Thorine is more abundant than urane salts, Thorium reactors do not produce long-half-life waste and they're safer than Uranium reactors. It's just they don't produce plutonium for nuke material.
IIRC something like a hundred nuclear power plants that were planned to go on line in US during the late 70s and the '80s were canceled because of political fallout from 3 mile island.
If they go online that's a lot of coal that doesn't get burned.
IIRC something like a hundred nuclear power plants that were planned to go on line in US during the late 70s and the '80s were canceled because of political fallout from 3 mile island.
If they go online that's a lot of coal that doesn't get burned.