Proliferation is only 1 aspect that I'm interested in, I'm big on the safety and the potential to reduce the worst waste. But of these I think the political 'gold' of non-proliferation could be the best bet to kick start the thorium industry since waste and safety concerns come along as bit later.
I don't really understand about the liquid salt, but believe you when you say the liquid salt is part of the 'thorium package' if you want the benefits, without the whole 'package' then the idea isn't much chop and if it takes until the 90s for the 'thorium package' to be viable then we're screwed because we'll have had 25-30 years of uranium entrenchment with the attendant waste, safety, cost and proliferation problems.
I don't really understand about the liquid salt, but believe you when you say the liquid salt is part of the 'thorium package' if you want the benefits, without the whole 'package' then the idea isn't much chop and if it takes until the 90s for the 'thorium package' to be viable then we're screwed because we'll have had 25-30 years of uranium entrenchment with the attendant waste, safety, cost and proliferation problems.