Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion Research
Nuclear fusion is probably still decades away. But I am going tangent here, nuclear fission still have great potentials.
Scientists from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory actually 
helped China to built Molten Salt reactors in the 70s during Nixon administration. [1] And since then thorium based molten salt Gen IV reactors have been having renewed interests around the global. China actually tested the whole system feasibility in Giga Watts scale in recent years. [2]<p>Nuclear power is vital part of the energy infrastructure to curb worsening environment due to climate change - it&#x27;s still considered superior than all the other green alternative energies in terms of either 24&#x2F;7 availability (vs. solar&#x2F;wind) or massive scale (vs. geothermal) or location restricted (vs. hydro) or carbon-free (vs. biomass&#x2F;bio-fuel). China realized that in their dire request to transition out their entire energy reliance on carbon-based energies, it&#x27;s impossible to do without nuclear.
Also, newer reactor designs are much safer and last longer so a lot of the concerns of radioactive waste have largely been alleviated.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10229697" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10229697</a> (2015)<p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17813614" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17813614</a> (2018)