Economics

Costs can be divided into two categories:

conventional

those associated with environmental and safety concerns.

Neither category of cost can be estimated with any precision for fossil fuels, fission or fusion in fifty years, but the present understanding is that:

The fuels for fusion, deuterium and lithium, have a widespread and abundant distribution and extraction costs are low. Therefore, the conventional costs of electricity generated by fusion will be dominated by capital costs. Because of the uncertainties of extrapolating from present-day experiments to power plant conditions, a range of cost-of-electricity estimates can be found. These are broadly comparable to fission and fossil fuelled plants.