Crap article, no sources for the said “interview” are given.
No references at “Der Spiegel” website at all.

You seem to know as much about genetics as you do about politics.

Except that Thorium reactors are still experimental and will definitely be much too late to replace fossil fuel

apart from the fact that uranium is a very limited resource which will very soon become uneconomic to mine, apart from the social and environmental consequences of mining