The new Vogtle reactor in Georgia (the US state) cost about $17B. A single offshore oil platform can cost upwards of $1B and we build hundreds of these. When w

The new Vogtle reactor in Georgia (the US state) cost about $17B. A single offshore oil platform can cost upwards of $1B and we build hundreds of these. When weighed against the potential payoff fusion is very underfunded. If we make it work we basically have infinite clean energy until the heat death of the universe, not to mention a source of energy that could jet us around the solar system and beyond at speeds far beyond what anything we currently have can achieve. The cost of ITER is not crazy for the energy industry in general. Huge energy projects are very expensive. We spend multiples of that on oil drilling every year.