High school student builds fusion reactor

n 2006 Thiago Olson joined the extremely sparse ranks of amateurs worldwide who have achieved nuclear fusion with a home apparatus. In other words, he built the business end of a hydrogen bomb in his basement. The plasma "star in a jar"—shown at the left—demonstrated his success.
For two years, Olson researched what he would need and scrounged for parts from eBay and the hardware store. Flanges and piping? Check. High-voltage X-ray transformer? Check. Pumps, deuterium source, neutron bubble dosimeter? Check, check, check. “I have cross-country and track, so during those seasons I don’t have much time to work on it,” says Olson, a high school senior in Michigan. “It’s more of a weekend project.” Last November the machine finally delivered the hallmark of success: bubbles in the dosimeter. The bubbles indicate the presence of neutrons, a by-product of fusion—an energy-releasing process in which two hydrogen nuclei crash together and form a helium nucleus. Fusion is commonplace in stars, where hydrogen nuclei fuse in superhot plasma, but temperatures that high are hard to achieve on Earth. Still, the prospect of creating all this energy while forming only nonradioactive helium and easily controlled neutrons has made harnessing fusion one of the most sought-after and heavily funded goals in sustainable energy.

Source http://discovermagazine.com/2007/mar...tive-boy-scout

[nitish_mythology]

Thts amazing...
This boy might b the next Einstein...LOL Knowing more than ur teacher!

[dOm1naTOr]

Hell be next Dock-Oc

[*GandaBerunda*]

cool!! he must be a genius...

[Josan]

there is nothing like Genius with this guy
may b this guy b good with preticle ,coz all this theory of reactor is being told to the students in their classes,else if you are intrested in this topic you can find a lot other books on this topic which can even teach you more than the R Ford knows at his times >>>...>>>jus think abt it--------->>>>>>.