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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}}
In 1980, the [[Atomic Industrial Forum]] wrote an article quoting Lewis H. Strauss, Strauss's son, claiming that he was not talking about [[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 |date=May 1980 |publisher=Atomic Industrial Forum}}</ref> As the AEC's [[Project Sherwood]] was still classified at the time, he was not allowed to refer to this work directly, thus causing confusion. Since that time, the 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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