http://www.msnbc.com:80/news/299611.asp
To quote in part:
To Terry
Kammash, going to the stars is not sci-fi stuff.
In the new millennium, the nuclear engineer
envisions missions to Alpha Centauri, closest
star to our solar system. In just the next 20 to
25 years, he predicts spacecraft will reach one
milepost on the route, the Oort Cloud, a
debris-filled comet belt 932 billion miles away.
And he’s betting the missions will use fusion,
the basic energy source of stars themselves.