The fusion hype is ‘fueled’ in large part by the opponents of nuclear power. If fusion is just around the corner, why would anyone support building fission power plants, a proven technology which has been available for over fifty years? The no-nukes crowd has very effectively spiked the development of nuclear power by over-hyping and catastrophizing the isolated incidents which have occurred at three nuclear facilities and dangling the utopian vision of fusion power in front of a gullible public always clamoring for the next technological miracle.