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Re: DIY School project - build a nuclear fusion reactor in your bedroom

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From: Uncle Al
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:18

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Gregory Toomey wrote:
> 
> Yes it can be done:
> http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,510054502,00.html

Take a Geiger-Muller tube, replace the fill gas with deuterium and a
percent of methyl bromide, hook it up backwards (reversed polarity
electrodes), ramp up the voltage past plateau (~800-950 V), add some
ionizing radiation.  You get very nice deuterium fusion at the central
wire.  Going into the discharge region chews on the tube - but you
will get a nice neutron yield while it lasts.

This was actually considered by the DOE for tritium manufacture until
somebody who could do arithmetic figured the cost/curie vs. nuclear
reactor conversion of lithium-6/aluminum alloy.  One presumes the poor
bastard was fired on the spot (the one who did the accurate cost
analysis).

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Uncle Al
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