Re: Bah!
> I wish scientists would stop pretending a working fusion reactor is here or "just around the corner".
You will have a very hard time to find any scientist pretending this. Indeed "Just 20 years in the future, for another 70 years." (or some variation of this) is what pretty much every scientist working in the field will agree to.
Things may sound a bit more optimistic in grant proposals, but that's another matter.