wow, that’s pretty sad. the 'moderate' path would have required an average expenditure of ~$2.5 billion a year, and projected the completion of a reactor by 2005. a pretty small investment when you consider the size of the federal budget [1] and where most of the funding goes.

even more sad, when considering the likelihood that many graphs relating to other potentially transformative technologies probably look much the same..

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_Stat...