I've been tracking news on nuclear fusion for electricity since the mid-70s (when it was my Affirmative Plan in high school debate). Fusion is always just another five years out, as soon as the next X gets built or Y breakthrough occurs.
Which doesn't mean it won't happen, sooner or later, and I'd love to still be around when it does — but I'll believe it when I see the surcharge for it on my Xcel bill.
Nuclear Fusion in Five Years? > ENGINEERING.com
Lockhead Martin’s Skunk Works is famous for developing advanced technologies. Now Skunk Works Program Manager Charles Chase has outlined their plan for creating a 100 MW Fusion prototype by 2017. For the last 50 years nuclear fusion has been viewed as the future of power production.
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The title of the post, btw (without the parenthetical comment) is the same as the title of an Original Oratory I ran with during the '76-'77 school year, I believe it was.
A nuclear fuel that works now, and is easy to control, with a much shorter half life.
Thorium