[KitemanSA]

First, the government spent all that money for their own purposes. The design and construction of commercial Nuclear Power Plants has been on the user since day one. also, NPPs have been paying into a fund to handle Spent Nuclear Fuel. There is plenty of money to handle it, except that government can spend way more on anything than any rational person can imagine.

The fed gov has spent ~$16B on "renewable energy" recently. With 1/10th that money, LFTRs could have been coming off the assembly line at 100MW/day by now. And those plants could be eliminating that SNF as we speak.