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==Fusion or fission?==
Strauss's prediction did not come true, and over time it became a target of those pointing to the industry's record of overpromising and underdelivering{{sfn|Wellock|2016}} — which is now largely realized to have been caused by the transition from the AEC position as a champion of nuclear power to the NRC position of a regulator focused exclusively on
In 1980, the [[Atomic Industrial Forum]] wrote an article quoting his son, Lewis H. Strauss, claiming that he was talking about not [[nuclear fission]] but [[nuclear fusion]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Report on public understanding of nuclear energy, #142 |date=May 1980 |editor1-first=Robert |editor1-last=Livingston |editor2-last=Bianchi |editor2-first=Ron |publisher=Atomic Industrial Forum}}</ref> He claimed his father was not specific about this in the speech because the AEC's [[Project Sherwood]] was still classified at the time, so he was not allowed to refer to this work directly. Since that time, this claim has been widely repeated, including in 2003 comments by Donald Hintz, chairman of the [[Nuclear Energy Institute]].{{sfn|Wellock|2016}}
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