What a freak. No, I'm not talking about him.
I was referring to 15yo
Thiago Olson, who built a nuclear reactor in his basement for $3500.
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HOW IT WORKS
Two vacuum pumps suck air out of the central chamber, leaving a near-total vacuum. Loose atoms in here interfere with fusion and lower yield.
The chamber is filled with deuterium and jolted with about 45,000 volts of electricity.
A negatively charged grid of thin steel wires attracts the now-positive particles, sometimes causing them to collide.
Colliding particles fuse to form helium-3. The resulting neutron emission is measured, proving that fusion occurred.
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