Nuke backup

If you want to research solutions to climate change on the Internet you will find a very distorted picture. There are thousands of article and if you randomly selected 100 you would find the following. 95 would be about wind and solar, 4 nuclear and one thorium nuclear. All of the wind and solar articles would tell you about the need for a back up when the wind and sun are not available. Some would discuss the amount of space needed, the long transmission lines and the overall cost but none would mention the damage to the earth by the mining and disposing of the materials needed. The discussion of uranium type nuclear plants will always include Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima. They would all include the problems of disposing waste. The articles on thorium will explain how they are safer and produce small amounts of waste with short life times while using up the current waste that has long lifetimes.