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Nobody can predict this, though some people do give opinions. The fact is that no successful way of reliably producing and harnessing fusion on earth has been developed, and scientists are still trying to devise better experiments which involve spending a lot of money and time. Personally I would give it at least 50 years. Hopefully it will be ready within 100 years because the suplies of uranium may be running out by then.

About every 10 years fusion reactor researchers have traditionally predicted that they expect to have it working in about 10 years. It is always "just over the horizon". Also I expect it will be far less "clean" than has usually been predicted (e.g. there will be disposal issues for the radioactive reactor at shutdown just like with fission - maybe smaller problems but still problems).

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