The potential of Nuclear technology is huge, unfortunately so is the associated need for a large government intensive, multi-billion, long-term investment. That

The potential of Nuclear technology is huge, unfortunately so is the associated need for a large government intensive, multi-billion, long-term investment. That's is one of the key problems with nuclear in general having an only tangential relation with the technology itself. Compared to an equal size total investment, broken up into multiple smaller R&D areas, the the big nuclear bet is likely at a opportunity cost disadvantage. The strategy of equivalent smaller investments in other renewable technology has multiple outlet points where private industry can take and run the results into production. Although one couldn't prove that one approach would yield better than another, my feel is that the multiple smaller bets yields earlier with the potential to scale better overall.