thorium reactors have been proven for years. in the 50s they were designed for submarines. which are at the time consider the state of the art vehicles even with oil based fuels. nuclear tech was just on the rise because of ww2. we knew that it was only time before other caught up with us. and in the 50s they proved many different ways to make nuclear energy. the ones that made it are the most overly engineered tech to this day. so excessively complicated all to maintain the needed weapon grade fuels. the methods we in the U.S. use only 1% of the energy there. cars uses at least 20 to 30% of there energy. all meltdowns ever happened are becuase of using the reactors used to make weapons. they take 1 % of the power and the rest is left to decay for a billion years. but there is a real nowday solution for this. use thorium reactors. there just a water boiler thats sealed in. thoriums to weak to meltdown. but it can boil fucking water all day for years. plus after its running all the waste weve built up for years oddly can be reused for the other 99% of energy in them after there running.