Right... since the world is all up in a hissy-fit about Global Warming, people have started to look for alternative energy sources. However, one potential source of power has been worked on by scientists for quite a while before the whole climate change furore, in hope of bringing a much safer, and much more powerful source of energy into existance.

Nuclear Fusion. Harnessing the power of the sun in order to create a vast abundance of energy, and you don't even need to use radioactive materials as fuel for the reactor. Just two different isotopes of hydrogen. Of course, like with any nuclear process, fusion does produce its fair share of radiation, but in terms of radioactive waste, it is virtually nil compared to Nuclear Fission reactors (the only real waste is replaced, irradiated reactor parts... but this is low level radioactive waste and is easy to handle and deal with compared to the high level waste that is produced by fission reactors). Overall, Fusion is a very tasty goal for science, and for the world (a hydrogen economy would require such a vast amount of energy to flourish, something only Fusion can provide). Plus, its extremely hard to use fusion reactors to proliferate weapons grade radioactive material, without extensive and expensive modifications, which would be hard to conceal.

Of course, not everyone agrees. Thus I've put this in the extended discussion to see what people thought of it. It would be interesting to see how people take fusion (and also see the misconceptions).