> I don't think there was ever a direct subsidy of civilian nuclear power for weapons production. Most subsidies are not direct and called "subsidy". But as lo

> I don't think there was ever a direct subsidy of civilian nuclear power for weapons production. Most subsidies are not direct and called "subsidy". But as long as nuclear weapons production was a priority, the US had an more of an incentive to research decommissioning, funding final disposing sites, have more people study nuclear engineering, creating job opportunities for nuclear engineers to build up an ecosystem, funding basic research in the area, researching and providing the logistics for transporting waste to disposal sites etc.