Teen builds working nuclear fusion reactor in Memphis home

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9. I have been involved with both magnetic fusion and laser fusion.

The detection mode would be a neutron meter. A simple one micro curie Americium 241 source from a smoke detector could make a neutron meter respond. The idea that 50,000 volts can "heat" a plasma is great writing. The experience of purchasing "deuterium gas" would be expensive but "tritium" gas would be much better. I would like to know about the "injection of neutrons" because we all know neutrons are not "magnetic" but maybe it was Am 241 which does release neutrons. This sure was not a "boy scout" project, but it sure was not a Tandem Mirror Experiment (TMX) or Nova Laser Fusion Experiment....I would have thought the garage would have been elected for this amazing experiment?? I think he made a plasma, he had a neutron detector (I did not see the meter connected to the detector, but I did see a vacuum pump next to the detector), a few radiation signs. Nice setup, but did it REALLY happen??? Nice talking teacher, but no video of him at house?? I liked the Laser Fusion video which is where I worked at LLNL.