Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standard, White House says

The ITER project has no plans ever to boil so much as one gallon of water for public power. It is 100% a "research project", yet not even planned to try out until 2050. Then, maybe start a production plant after they finish experimenting, maybe in time for 2100 if everything works out perfectly. Which it won't.

If $10B is hard (i.e. impossible) to justify for proven fission, how about $100B for fusion? $200B?

Nobody involved expects ever? to field a competitive Tokamak power station. Not in their lifetime, not in their grandchildrens' lifetime. That is not the purpose of the project.

It has a different purpose. Its main purpose is to provide employment for hot-neutron physicists, to maintain a population to be available to draw on for sporadic weapons work. Another purpose it shares with a lot of others, to provide a reliable long-term conduit of public funds to select private hands. The hot-neutron physicists are not getting those $billions, but somebody is.

Every penny spent on ITER is stolen from other possibly viable projects. Imagine how many GW-years could be generated by 2050 by solar and wind paid for out of what is earmarked for ITER.