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The California Resources Board should add text about Liquid
Fluoride Thorium Reactors, and spend time talking about them too. 
They must be considered.

California imports electricity from Nevada, which uses coal in its
production.  Also we use lots of Natural Gas in California.  Coal
produces a huge amount of CO2, and natural gas produces a lot, even
though it is cleaner. Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors produce
none, and are a cheaper source of electricity.

Check out this web site and watch the first video:

http://www.thoriumenergyalliance.com/ThoriumSite/portal.html

Also, we can use up all our spent nuclear fuel in LFTRs  
( Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors ), also called MSRs (Molten Salt
Reactors).   We need to get R&D going, build some, and convert our
nuclear reactors to LFTRs. One ran for 4-years at Oak Ridge
National Laboratories, Tennessee in the 1960's.

If those nuclear reactors in Japan were LFTRs, which don't need
cooling water, then we would not be having dangerous problems with
them now. LFTRs are much safer, more efficient, less expensive, and
far more immune to human errors than other kinds of nuclear
reactors.  

LFTRs are scalable so small ones can be located all over the USA,
which reduces transmission lines losses. Thorium is much safer,
cheaper and much more plentiful than uranium.  Thorium can be
safely transported.   LFTRs produce virtually nothing that
terrorists would want. 

Search the Internet for LFTR or MSR. 

The Thorium Energy Alliance says that we could build a LFTR if we
went at it full speed.  Otherwise it could take a decade or two. 
Let California lead the country by having the first working LFTR
right here since the one that ran at Oak Ridge National Labs in
Tennessee in the 1960's.