Do we still have the technical knowledge and skilled workers to build and manage a nuclear power plant?
The Thorium Molten Salt plants depend on a much different, and far less complex, technology. The problem is in getting them authorized and built. There is a crying need, right now, and all over the world, for this source to be much more fully developed. The concept works, even better than ever expected, but there are still none who believe in its ultimate superiority.
India is probably at the forefront of design and construction of these plants. If they get a number of them up and running, that would make them truly a leading industrial power.
And without all that much coal, petroleum or natural gas.