The seniors gathered fusion reactor in the garage and put experiments

Homemade fuzor

Sometimes a school physics lessons are boring, I want serious experiment, not to set fire to alcohol in vitro. Why not gather at somebody garage fusion reactor? It did students in the town of Federal Way, Washington. As it turned out, the assembly fuzora Farnsworth under force even lover.

Every Friday about 20 enthusiasts gathered in the basement of a modest home in Federal Way and put various experiments. This club of extreme science - the idea Greningera Charles (Carl Greninger), manager of Microsoft (day) and the enthusiast-scientist (in the evening). It is alarming the current system of school education, which does not allow children to learn the real pleasure of the experimental discovery.

It appeared Extreme Science Club. In recent years they have managed to win several awards at regional science competitions, take 4th place in the world ISEF competition, as well as get a $ 250,000 scholarship for training club members in colleges.



At the moment, the boys explore the elastic collisions in plasma physics and perform boron flow calculations in nuclear biochemistry, said the official website

Fuzor Farnsworth-Hirsch -. A small fusion reactor, which is designed American inventors Philo Taylor Farnsworth and Robert Hirsch 1964. Since then, several options Fuser was made, but this type of reactor and close can not come close to the Lawson criterion, so it is suitable for commercial use another type of reactor - tokamak

. In fuzore deuterium is supplied at low pressure in a spherical reactor chamber.



spherical reactor chamber

Central grill in the chamber is at a very high negative voltage and the grounded chamber. As a result, the electrons break away from the hydrogen atoms and the chamber is filled with positively charged deuterons. These nuclei at high speed rush to the central reactor lattice, some pass through it and face in the center. All Overshot deuterons, ideally, then fly back and also face each other. In amateur fuzorah central grid typically has a diameter of 3-5 cm, and the camera can be a sphere with a diameter of 20 cm.

Here is the "garage fuzor" from the control panel on the top shelf, and a vacuum system and a source of tension on the bottom shelf.



Some other amateur fuzory.





Fuzor school in Federal Way

Details for the vacuum system and a voltage source mined on eBay and university warehouses. Sometimes it is possible to buy a lot of parts on one hundred dollars each, which are then resold on eBay for the same thousand.

Cylinders with deuterium is easy to get into commercial companies.

Neutron Detector our Fuser sold to a Canadian company BTI (bubble neutron detector).



On forums fuzoram give a lot of advice, where and what to buy.

Probably, such a setup can be collected on a practical training in Russian schools.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/274088/