That's great. Welcome news amid the doom and gloom!

Also, from Space.com:

"In contrast [to deuterium and tritium ], helium 3 fusion would produce little residual radioactivity..."You could safely build a helium 3 plant in the middle of a bigcity," Kulcinski said.

"Researchers and space enthusiasts see helium-3 as the perfect fuel source...Helium 3 fusion is also ideal for poweringspacecraft and interstellar travel. While offering the high performancepower of fusion -- "a classic Buck Rogers propulsion system" -- helium3 rockets would require less radioactive shielding, lightening the load,said Robert Frisbee, an advanced propulsion engineer at NASA's Jet PropulsionLaboratory in Pasadena California."

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/helium3_000630.html

Wouldn't you think that a cooperative effort would be better though?
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A very interesting pdf: "The Significance of Helium 3 Fusion"

http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/neep533/FALL2001/lecture25.pdf

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once" - John Wheeler