Fusion has the interest and research it does because solving it would solve our energy needs almost permanently. It has a far higher payoff than thorium. And it

Fusion has the interest and research it does because solving it would solve our energy needs almost permanently. It has a far higher payoff than thorium. And it doesn't matter that thorium research was abandoned because we couldn't vaporize commies with it. It was abandoned, and is decades away from commercial use.