Originally Posted by JBR*

I agree. The future is nuclear, whether that be Thorium fission or Hydrogen fusion (less likely, but you never know).

One problem, of course, would be convincing people that it is safe. Many are frightened of nuclear power simply because they don't understand it. This fear extends further still: in the early days of MRI scanners, they were called Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) scanners, but this was rapidly changed because it was thought that no-one would want to have one!