High School Student Builds Nuclear Fusion Reactor

I was reading through gizmowatch, and came across this cool article. It seems he got most of the parts that he needed for this off of eBay.

In November 2006, a few tiny bubbles in his neutron dosimeter told him that he’d achieved success: Fusing hydrogen nuclei into helium. Olson’s nuclear reactor is pretty bad-ass, producing 200 million-degree plasma at its core — or, as Olson points out, “several times hotter than the core of the sun”.

The fact that he could make this on his own and find the parts on eBay is almost as scary as how easy it is to find the directions on how to build it yourself. Reading through my daily hack-a-day I came across an article on how to “make your own fusion reactor“.

Yes…I put this in the “gift ideas” category.^_^
- Guestblogger David