US Department of Energy backs five advanced nuclear reactor concepts

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.

Per the projections, we are in a critical period for mitigating climate change.

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.

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.