There very serious issues that need to be addressed. One of these is a material science issue since there is no way to steer neutrons, particularly neutrons at 14 MeV.
The fusion people have spent decades and a huge amount of human hours just getting plasmas stabilized. They have not even begun to address heat transfer.
The Apollo/Manhattan Project paradigm is often abused and misunderstood. The successes are recorded, the failures are ignored.
I suggest reading Siddhartha Mukherjee's "The Emperor of All Maladies" for an insightful discussion of the Apollo model of Nixon's "War on Cancer."
The point is that without addressing the basic science and having it understood, throwing money and resources at a problem is extremely wasteful and in the end counter productive.
Many Cancers today are curable because of advances in molecular biology that were simply unknown in 1970. This understanding evolved over and more importantly required the work of literally millions of graduate students and their mentors working way outside a centralized bureaucracy.
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