This is a good dollar amount for continued research, but anything more than this level is just taking money from moving from fossil fuels to alternative energy and batteries.<p>Per the projections, we are in a critical period for mitigating climate change.<p>Nuclear obviously has great long-term potential, but the annual 5-10% improvements in various solar/wind/BEV/grid storage technologies that are ALREADY at consumer production and ALREADY are sliding under the LCOE of even natural gas turbines, make any tangible power generation project for the next 5-10 years that is NOT wind/solar/gridstorage basically a guaranteed boondoggle.<p>And I used to love all those cool LFTR presentations with proliferation resistant isotopes, brayton cycle performance, meltdown proof, breeding, high availability of thorium, using spent nuclear waste as fuel, etc.