Absolute government spending numbers on fission research isnt very informative when the government is capable of being arbitrarily inefficient at research. Space flight (SLS/Orion) and fusion (ITER) demonstrate this clearly, with the bulk of government investment largely being unhelpful, despite being large.
I haven’t looked into what this spending is on for fission, but I have heard that it is basically impossible to test new designs ever, so I would not expect anybody in the US to be able to demonstrate good progress efficiently even if they were more competently run than those other examples.
Absolute government spending numbers on fission research isnt very informative when the government is capable of being arbitrarily inefficient at research. Space flight (SLS/Orion) and fusion (ITER) demonstrate this clearly, with the bulk of government investment largely being unhelpful, despite being large.
I haven’t looked into what this spending is on for fission, but I have heard that it is basically impossible to test new designs ever, so I would not expect anybody in the US to be able to demonstrate good progress efficiently even if they were more competently run than those other examples.