Thorium makes sense for supplying metropolises and 24/7 heavy industry between sunset and midnight. Uranium doesn't make sense because it's rare and hard to mine. Daytime nuclear doesn't make sense because solar is cleaner, cheaper, and decentralized. And it doesn't make sense for smaller cities, towns, and rural areas because you need to waste a shit-ton of electricity transporting the power of one reactor long distances.

It's easy to forget how wasteful it is to lose 90% of your electricity transporting it long distances when that is what all the 20th century infrastructure was built around. But there are tons of energy storage methods that don't require lithium that are more efficient, provided the electricity is generated locally.