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sorry...
my personal "I want it to happen SO bad" is Non-Statistical Fusion Reactions In Atomic Scale Accelerators

  • A sub-nuclear resolution microscopic accelerator just a few centimeters long and only a few nano-meter wide might theoretically initiate individually controlled fusion reactions without requiring thermonuclear temperatures or confinement.
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    In the last few years, researchers have created precise atomic structures using atomic force microscope equipment (piezo electric and magnostrictive crystals used to position sensing probes and atomic position probes). Recently researchers at IBM have created an atomically perfect ring of copper atoms to create an electron standing wave pattern. Other researchers have created various other atomic scale structures such as nano-meter-sized-tubes and Buckminster Fullerenes.

If you've read Asimov, you'll be familiar with the Second Foundation's particular expertise with microscopic fusion reactors.

This would be better than "Mr. Fusion", as they would be significantly smaller.

I wouldn't mind me some fusion-on-a-chip. I think Hari Seldon would approve.

Yup...I read Asimov...I don't recall 'fusion on a chip'..but I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work.

Making such small but potent magnetic fields requisite to containing the energies released is an engineering problem, but at the nanoscale, which is where we go at this size, it is somewhat less predictable.