Don't believe the hype. Fusion is far off, and even when it happens, there will be problems because
they produce neutrons. They are not clean. The neutrons produce reactivity in surrounding
materials. The neutrons also destroy metals and quickly destroy the reactor.

A fusion reactor is complex and expensive and a fission reactor is simple and cheap.
There's no way fusion power will be cheaper than fission power.
In a fission reactor, the uranium fuel is a negligible part of the cost. A fusion reactor uses expensive tritium fuel.

A fusion physics seminar tends to be 30 minutes of plasma physics and 30 minutes of superconductor
technology. ITER uses a diverse array of superconducting magnets. Most of the countries in the ITER
collaboration are in it for the magnet technology, not the fusion.

It's easy to publish an article saying fusion is the future. It's hard to produce an article that
takes the physics seriously. That's why you see all the fluff articles. There's no physics. All they
can say is "we think we can do it".

This is my turf. I'm a computational plasma physicist.
Textbook on nuclear reactors: [jaymaron.com]

@jaymaron I also have a passing interest in this field (particle physics, theoretical) and am aware of the difficulties in perfecting this power source. Fusion, if perfected would be a better alternative than fission unless a way to deal with the waste from fission is found. It is often said that Fusion is 30 years away, they've been saying that for the past 50 years.
It will be a game changer when the problems are resolved and has to be worth exploring.

The way to make tritium fusion fuel is....
with a fission reactor. Neutrons from a fission reactor split lithium into tritium and helium.

In a fission reactor, slow neutrons can only burn 10% of the fuel, and then the fission products
start stealing neutrons. A fast neutron reactor can burn all of the fuel, and you don't need to breed
plutonium ahead of time. You can use natural U-238.

The focus for fission reactors should be eliminating unnecessary regulations, and designing multipurpose
fast reactors. People think of fission as a done technology. No. Fission can make big gains.
And it's bank. Fusion is uncertain.

The next generation of space rockets will be nuclear. We should be designing nuclear thermal rockets.

A fission reactor cranks out discard heat and can carve out a piece of tropical climate in North
Canada. The power it produces gooses the economy. If people realized this, they would want one.

You really taxed your brain pretty hard to come up with that response. I'm surprised your vocabulary was even remotely sufficient.