The problem is that you are conflating the weapons program and commercial nuclear waste program. Not even close even if DOE is ultimately responsible. You are correct that the government has mismanaged everything it touches but to expand that to somehow say (there for) we need Thorium reactors to save us all. That is just non-sense.
Los Alamos and WIPP both fall under DOE.
My comments on Thorium were part of a long-ago rant.
If I nitpicked every comment typed at FR, I’d get nothing done.
I’ve got better things to do...