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| Contents of this page Milestones June 9, 2019: The site has now about 75,000 page views by 41,500 visitors from 173 countries. The past year the project has hardly progressed due to frequent illness. Development work has been done on Deuterium gas injection and Deuterons compacting by magnetic plasma compression. March 31, 2018: We counted 60,000 page views by 35,025 visitors from 167 countries. The project is still slowly progressing with the construction of auxilliary equipment. August 20, 2017: This day we counted 50,000 page views by 26,522 visitors from 162 countries! The project is still (slowly) progressing and is in the Fusor vacuum testing phase. Earlier: May 19, 2017: counting 45,000 page views from 22,730 individual visitors in a total of 159 countries! The 31st December 2016 at 24:00 hours we were pleased to finish the year. In our opinion and experience a lousy year loaded with disease, hospital visits, and operations, preventing us from making real progress with the Fusor. We don't know if this has to do with it: the number 2016 is quite peculiar, because for x = 2016 the equation (x2 + x3) has the solution 8197604352, a result which contains all numbers from 0 to 9 only once! We consider the start of a new year as a milestone! On September 26, 2016 we were pleased to count 30,000 page views from 16, 684 individual visitors from 144 different countries. Whatever the objective was for their visit or by which way they found our website we wish everybody a warm welcome! On March 10, 2016 this website counted 20,000 page views since its first publishing and on the same day 2,000 visitors from the USA had visited our site. In total that date we had received 6,006 individual visitors from 124 different countries. We still encourage feedback! On June 30, 2015 this website had its first anniversary with the project still in the collecting and constructing phase. The past year the website received 2942 visitors from 107 different countries, who visited 9848 pages. More disappointing is that the site only had one single feedback reaction, no support whatsoever except one negative support experience. Introduction This website will describe all steps in the construction and operation of a Fusor, a "lone nut" project. A Fusor is an inertial electrostatic confinement device in which colliding nuclei may fuse. With other words a kind of nuclear fusion reactor. The theory and other details of the Fusor can be found in Wikipedia: Fusor (ref. 2) and the basic principles of nuclear fusion can also be found in Wikipedia: Nuclear Fusion (ref. 3). The purpose of this website is to provide information about the construction of a Fusor, operated under medium to high vacuum, and to demonstrate its fusing capabilities by injecting Deuterium and detecting the presence of fast neutrons from the reactions:  Both reactions Ia and Ib occur each for 50% and yield Tritium and Helium-3, releasing a proton of 3.02 MeV and a fast energetic neutron of 2.45 MeV. Tritium formed in reaction Ia will react further with Deuterium present in the reactor by forming Helium-4 conform reaction II and release a high energetic neutron with an energy of 14.1 MeV. A neutron detector is therefore the instrument of choice to be used for demonstrating that fusion occurs. The neutron detector will be placed inside a moderator in order to capture the fast neutrons of 2.45 MeV and higher and slowing them down to thermal neutrons with a kinetic energy of about 0.025 eV, which then fall in the range of detection for the neutron detector. The conditions required for enabling a fusion of Deuterium (i.e. "the project") will be discussed in detail on separate pages, dealing with rationales for choices made, realisation of equipment, tests, discussions of more theoretical approaches of Fusor physics, etc. A tremendous help for the newbie in Fusor construction is the Forum in Fusor.net (ref.4). It is a source of information on all details of Fusor construction and help is available for answering questions. The approach of the project is quite different from the approach that would have been used when a professional scientific research project path would have been followed. In that case the starting point would have been acquiring the budget, followed by developing a project plan, acquiring equipment and constructing and operating the Fusor according to the (approved) plan. Following this path, it would be quite possible that a budget somewhere between 20 - 80 kEUR would be required for a rather simple project like the one we will describe on this website. At the start of this project, the final construction is not yet known; the budget departs at zero and a fixed plan is totally absent. The Fusor wil get its final shape during the project, fully depending on own efforts and skills and from the parts that will be obtained, based on a very low budget. Therefore, challenges are constantly present and different solutions and/or techniques will have to be found or followed. Once again, the journey is more important than the arrival. For the construction of an amateur built Fusor the following main system components will be required:
 The index page gives access to all other pages; the bottom row of pages give access to pages in the same row, to the index page (called "home") and to the feedback page. Most pages have at the bottom a list of references. Addressing a link from a reference will open a new window in your browser. A continuous story of progress made in obtaining and constructing of any of the main system components can be found on the following separate pages (press button): |
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| References: 1) Farnsworth Fusor from U.S. Patent 3.386.883 at http://www.google.com/patents/US3386883 2) Wikipedia: Fusor at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor 3) Wikipedia: Nuclear Fusion at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion 4) Fusor Net: http://www.fusor.net 5) Inventory List of Equipment and Parts: Inventory |
| Disclaimer: This website, including all its individual pages and including its associated websites, does in no way encourage reproduction, construction and operation of the described apparatus, its connected equipment and its described experiments, tests and operational instructions. Construction and operation of the described apparatus and its connected equipment involves application of lethal high voltages with the risk of electrocution and high vacuum with the risk of implosion possibly causing serious injury or death. When in operation the described apparatus may produce neutrons, UV-radiation and X-rays, which may be dangerous to your health. The author cannot be held responsible for any damage caused by disregarding the terms and warnings of this disclaimer or by making use of any information provided by this website. This website is subjected to constant alterations as more insight may be gained in the process of developing the apparatus and its connected equipment as well as concerning the underlaying theoretical knowledge. The information on this website is in no way considered to be complete, exhaustive or up-to-date. |
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