The reason this petition is important is because today we are excessively burning fossil fuels and this is leading to climate change. Fossil fuels are also responsible for major conflicts in the Middle East.

By turning away from fossil fuels and embracing thorium, we will be paving a future where the USA can not only become energy independent, but a carbon neutral nation. We have enough thorium in the United States to safely produce nuclear energy for thousands of years. LFTR plants have many, many benefits.

The first benefit is that LFTR reactors are 100 percent meltdown proof
The second benefit on LFTR is that LFTR reactors can burn our current nuclear waste stockpiles, therefore eliminating the need for massive storage facilities for
nuclear waste, such as Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

A third benefit of LFTR reactors is that these reactors can produce 99 percent less waste than today's reactors.

A fourth benefit on LFTR is that the leftover waste products can be used to cure cancer and power spacecraft for deep space exploration.

A fifth benefit of building an LFTR reactor is that the energy production would be cheaper than natural gas and coal,which will lead to lower energy bills and a cleaner Enviornment by getting rid of he dangers from Fracking for natural gas and respiratory diseases from coal soot emissions.

A sixth benefit of constructing an LFTR is that the reactors can turn the atmospheric gases into fuels for cars, therefore producing zero emission gasoline and fuels.

A seventh benefit of LFTR reactors is that by building and switching to a completely new, and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy lots of jobs will be created from the mining and processing of Thorium, the construction of the LFTR reactors and more jobs from the production of cancer medicines, nuclear fuel for space probes batteries, e.t.c. We can once again become a manufacturing superpower, but friendlier to Earth.

With thorium being one of the most common elements, on par with lead, we can avoid an energy crisis, ensure world peace and save the climate all in one move.

Thorium reactors also do not need to be pressurized, since the fuel is already liquid, so the reactors will be cheaper to build than coal plants and other outdated nuclear reactors.