Trump’s budget continues to boost nuclear energy

Photo credit should read ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images Donald Trump’s budget proposal for 2021 earmarks $1.2 billion for nuclear energy research and development and related programs. That’s significantly more than the $824 million Trump proposed in his budget the previous year. Even with the sizable increase in requested funds, the amount is less than the $1.5 billion that Congress allocated for nuclear energy last year.
Trump sold the bump in funding as a way to pr