The dangers and costs of nuclear waste materials and spent fuel rods are well documeted:

http://www.ess.uci.edu/~cdholmes/pubs/dennis2009.pdf

Many more references can be found on the Internet. FF proponents should be careful to separate themselves from this problem in promoting this technology. To the public fusion sounds like fission – both are nuclear energy in different forms. Just a word to the wise. In the long run we must deal with this issue in a realistic way. Like it or not we are stuck with this problem for generations to come.