How Mirrors Could Solve our Energy Problem

Los Alamos was reported to be building a Thorium reactor. I assume there is some progress being made that is publically available. Since there is more than one sort of Thorium reactor, the only posts I've seen was a brief YouTube video perhaps a year ago, of the construction site, surrounded by armed personnel, with intentional vagueness by Los Alamos as to the type and size of the reactor. The thing is, Small Modular Reactors (SMR) built on the walkaway-safe Thorium Salt, seems to be a perfect vehicle for use as US Energy grid, plus enough energy to provide regional Desalination Plants to augment our water systems and drive pumps 24/7/365 to filter and purify local bodies of water. This type of Thorium reactor is scalable to our needs and we can do on 100 acres what industrial solar panel requires 100 Acres ^3 =1-million acres of solar panels. This SMR big science combination can be used in many ways, scaled up or down, from manufacturing, to agriculture, to water pumping and purification to an array of environmentally clean uses. And the fuel is recyclable up to a point shortening half life spans down to what humans can manage predictably. It seems obvious that we need new creative thinking in high places.