A scout in the boy scouts of america hahn conducted his experiments in secret in a backyard shed at his mother s house in commerce township michigan. David charles hahn october 30 1976 september 27 2016 sometimes called the radioactive boy scout or the nuclear boy scout was an american man who built a homemade neutron source at the age of seventeen. This is one kind of an inertial electrostatic confinement device a branch of fusion research.
If they collide in the center they can fuse. Positive ions fall down this voltage drop building up speed. The machine induces a voltage between two metal cages inside a vacuum.
A fusor is a device that uses an electric field to heat ions to nuclear fusion conditions. Others on the list include a 15 year old from. The design is loosely based on a.
So this was a fun project to try fusion is the gold standard of energy and i wanted to try making a reactor of my very own. Tennessee teen successfully builds homemade nuclear fusion reactor on his own. Memphis teen constructs working nuclear fusion reactor in home laboratory.
It works by inertial electrostatic confinement which is a stupid way to say pulling and colliding particles together with electric charge. This sort of reactor is called a farnsworth hirsch fusor. A fusion reactor built by sam lee left and a photo of the purple plasma reaction it can generate.
A blenheim student is selling what he describes as a working nuclear fusion reactor on trademe. Back in 2010 mark suppes made the news by doing exactly. Trademe interestingly lee is not the first person to have made his own nuclear fusion reactor.
The reactors nice purple light source.
Homemade nuclear fusion reactor. More recently we learned about taylor wilson who in 2015 was one of only 32 people to build a nuclear fusion reactor themselves national geographic reported wilson was just 14 and he was. Yes you can build your very own nuclear fusion reactor in your house. But first a few warnings this project includes lethal voltage levels. Make sure you know your high voltage safety or have a qualified electrical advisor potentially hazardous levels of x rays will be produced.
Lead shielding of viewports is a must.
Lead shielding of viewports is a must. Make sure you know your high voltage safety or have a qualified electrical advisor potentially hazardous levels of x rays will be produced. But first a few warnings this project includes lethal voltage levels.
Yes you can build your very own nuclear fusion reactor in your house. More recently we learned about taylor wilson who in 2015 was one of only 32 people to build a nuclear fusion reactor themselves national geographic reported wilson was just 14 and he was.
