No, it's been making slow progress for decades. Slow progress because it is under-funded.
20 years ago (in my early 30's), I was wandering the streets of Amsterdam one night looking for a cool local pub to hang out just outside of the tourist centre area. I stumbled on pub that seemed to have lots of people hanging out in and lingering outside.I made my way in and the only place I could find to grab a seat, which was on a step of some unused stairs leading up. I was pretty close to a group of men in their 40's all with beards (which was not too common then) I always had a interest in science and particularly physics and could make out that they were in fact scientists bantering about one thing or another. I had the opportunity to strike up a conversation with a few of them over politics and the state of the world in general. I then asked them what brought them to town (since they were not dutch) and they replied that they were nuclear physicists in town for a conference. I took the opportunity to ask them about fusion, and ask them why we still haven't gotten close to achieving it. They all agreed that there was a couple issues keeping it from coming to fruition, with one being cheap and established fossil fuels (and their lobbying) and the other being the ongoing problem of chronic under funding. In fact they were all of the opinion that if the world reallocated the funding that went into preparing for war for just 1-2 years and applied it to research that we could have fusion in 5 years... They lamented that the entire budget for fusion was only less then 1% of just the USA defence budget. That conversion stuck with me through out the years, as I watched the world fight wars over oil and slowly work towards damaging the environment of the planet, continuing down a path of least resistance (and profitable) to the situation we have today. We definitely are not the brightest species as a whole, we suffer from such short slightness, greed and fight over such petty things, that we can't see that if we can learn to work together we could make this world so much better for everyone... Something I fear i will not see in my lifetime and that makes me sad.
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills. -- Ambrose Bierce