The future is happening in France right now at the ITER program. The first fusion reactor to be able to produce 500MW for 50MW of input energy. (In comparison new nuclear fission reactors produce upto 1500MW, yet the first fission reactor only produced 50MW) The bad part is it will still take until 2020 before the fusion reactor becomes operational.
Laser fusion or Inertial Confinement Fusion also had a few breakthroughs in the last years. The HiPER project is in the planning stage to build a commercial reactor. They expect to have a working reactor in the early 2020's if laser fusion ignition and energy gain (on the NIF laser in the USA) proves succesful this year.
2 Exciting projects that may change the world in the next couple of decades.
