a reactor is fission related not fusion, and technically to make a nuclear reactor you need enriched uranium. Good luck getting your hands on that! nice though.
instead of repeating tech we already have, how about experimenting on energy sources we need. Work on making helium 3 or better cheaper solar panels.
@103kon Neutrons aren't that penetrating and either the body of the reactor obstructs them or his skin does. I assume he doesn't sustain it and if he did he wouldn't care if his curcuits exploded because he would be rich having made fusion power work economically, which he didn't!
I have a few issues with this.... first, those pumps cannot sustain a vacuum pure enough for a fusion reaction. Secondly, if you were able to sustain a fusion reaction, the circuits in your house would explode. Literally. Thirdly, you're standing next to it. Which tells me that you are not aware of the nature of neutron radiation; it isn't something any intelligent person would expose themselves to with NO protection. Lastly, the vibrations from the pumps would also destroy any fusion reaction.
@mattix9 - Fusion has been performed tons of times. The problem is that they always use more energy than they produce. In layman's terms, it takes very intense circumstances to get atoms to smash together with such energy that they fuse together and begin a fusion reaction, and those very intense circumstances require a lot of energy. Currently the input energy requirements are higher than the energy output, so fusion, while doable, isn't yet a viable energy source.
@mattix9 sorry mate, theyve been doing it for years, just hasnt achived a high enough poweroutput-input ratio to be usefull. (look up farnsworth hirsch fusors, they were one of the earliest iec fusion methods as far as im aware)
How can you really believe it produce energy? what do you put inside?deuterium and tritium? where do you buy tritium?there are only 20 Kg of tritium on the whole Earth!!!
where's the proof of energy production?the red lamp? ahahah
That is way too small for fusion, and if it was, you wouldn't want to be standing there. Probably just a gas tap or something with some nice red lights.
@theBike45 Either that or the result of the niffty little experiment where they shoot a small amount of hydrogen matter with a 500 trillion watt laser that releases I think it was 500 million times the power of the US energy grid. Hopefully if they harness that and make it portable, it could power everything from your flying car to your grandma's exoskeleton. Science makes me wet.
@JustinianPictures Then you'd know that with a tokamak reactor you wouldn't end up killing anyone, the problem here is not the creation of energy, or the heat it puts out (as they're generally cooled via having lithium pumped around the walls of the reactor), the problem is how to transfer the energy in small enough amounts that it could be useful. Most definitely, this is fission.
Nuclear Fusion reactors are on the way. UK scientists in Oxfordshire have been doing fusion experiments for many years, and are on the way to creating long-running reactors for use on the grid.
Also, as an aside, surely given the massive heat built up by process of fusion, that boy up to, his toy, his garage and indeed his street should have been vaporised, melted and discombobulated to kingdom come! Homemade fusion? I think not.
@Nosphorus85 Depends on the size, volatility, and nuclear fertility of the fuels used, as well as the containment systems and coolant. His coolant seems pretty well set-up for small-scale fission. And that's what this is.
Fusion produces far more energy and heat, but Fission is far easier.
@chi6075 I'm sure the quality of his life is going to be way higher with a low level used sports car in highschool than a full ride to MIT as well as a working understanding of nuclear physics by age 15, before he can drive.
No, but seriously, what he should REALLY be doing is sports.
@AIgernon i dis aggre this young scientist is a bright example of all of the young scientists that made this world great. if all young scientists were to waste their time with sports Einstein wouldn't have came up with relativity good bye GPS and the laser, hawking wouldn't have came up with the big bang theory good bye inspiration to billions and scientific hope for a unified field theory. in a nutshell what i am saying is that without science and young aspiring scientists we would be cavemen
@AIgernon i dis aggre this young scientist is a bright example of all of the young scientists that made this world great. if all young scientists were to waste their time with sports Einstein wouldn't have came up with relativity good bye GPS and the laser, hawking wouldn't have came up with the big bang theory good bye inspiration to billions and scientific hope for a unified field theory. in a nutshell what i am saying is that without science and young aspiring scientists we would be cavemen
I see these kinds of fake prodigy videos all the time. The real creator is not the kid, he's only a puppet. These are the same kids with those fancy science projects in school that was actually designed and created by the parents.
if he got in MIT, i think they lowered the standards... so he knows what a powersupply is, controlling the amps, and he has a variable transformer to control the voltage, wow... ooh, and flashing lights ! if HE build it alone, nicely done, but it all costs alot of money, money someone has and probably knows of these kind of stuff... an oil pump, lights, and no real conclussion, not impressed... sorry
@zeekertron no scientists have been fusing atoms for decades as has our sun for billions of years. Building a fusion reactor that could be used in a power plant however has never been accomplished at this time. It 'should' be possible to do but it hasn't happened yet.
"Herp, hey look guys, I can put a bunch of random parts together and it makes noise! It's definitely a fusion reactor, even though there's no way a 15 yr old kid could build sufficient containment for a fusion reaction in a garage." Seriously people, no one should be believe this is real. Anyone who's studied physics should know that the fusing of atoms releases enormous amounts of energy, which would have to be contained by a very powerful magnetic field which obviously wasn't in this video.
@gustoman001 I wouldn't comment except your "anyone that studied physics.." remark got me. Fusion of single or even thousands of atoms do not produce enormous amount of energy. As opposed to fission. Fusion produces mainly nutrons (near massless) and some photons (massless). That is the problem with fusion, it takes more energy to acheive than it produces, which is why the scientific "holy grail" is Cold Fusion. This a real and common experiment done by many student in universities everyday.
@GideonHectorMcLean As I understand it, the fusion of two nuclei with lower masses than iron "generally" releases energy, and fusion reactions have an energy density far greater than nuclear fission. This would naturally lead me to think that any kind of reaction, except maybe for a fake one in a garage, would have some kind of output, which would have to be contained somehow.
@gustoman001 I tried to post a web address for Discovery Magazine that has an article which explains this kids story but appearently we can't post other web sites here. So..you should try doing a google search on Thiago Olson. I am not trying to start an argument at all. Just thought you may be interested.
theres one in south korea that is just fantastic to watch power up. saw it on a brian cox video. they cant figure out a way to inject the fuel effectively. bummer.
@sickasso72 Fusion doesn't use fuel rods. In fact, nuclear fission reactors such a LFTR do not use fuel rods, either. Not everything is ancient Uranium technology, get with the times, dinosaur.
and he doesn't mind being exposed to neutron radiation? hasn't he ever heard of a neutron bomb? sure he gets to go to MIT but then he dies of [insert organ here] cancer in 10 years.
I think this is the guy that also spent all Christmas wrapping copper coils with his parents and built a linear particle accelerator in his garage as well.
@13marriner24 No, he's not getting them mixed up, you are. Yes it's hard to believe, but this is fusion. Most of what you have heard about fusion is related to getting more energy out than you put in, so you can use it as a power source. This is not doing that, it is using more energy than it puts out, but it generates neutrons, which are useful to do other experiments with. The term 'reactor' can be confusing, the device is often just called a fuser. Google: Farnsworth–Hirsch fusor
@genicnz nuclear fission is when you fire a neutron at an atom of a radioactive material eg, uranium-235 or plutonium- 239, and enery is release along with 2-3 more neutrons, this is what happenes in nuclear reactions in powerstations today.
now. nuclear fusion is how the sun produces power, this is when two nuclei release energy when they are fused together to form a single larger nucleus. ALL FUSION REACTORS THAT ARE MAN MADE PRODUCE LESS ENERGY THAN ARE PUT IN, this defeats the object.
@antharesprocyon you're an idiot. Of course neutrons go through anything. Also, who would you rather believe, a kid who made a fusion reactor, or someone who doesn't know what stainless steel is?
@Rove82 If all 15 year old guys smokes blunts like all the others, we would have no scientists, inventors, artists, or intelectuals. Im fairly certain that if there were less of you and more of him, we'd hav a unifying feild theory, a cure for cancer, and be on mars by now. I can't even imagine a world full of unmotivated low lifes like you *shudders*
you probably will say that this kid has no life.
but doesnt he have a more meaningful life that yours of getting high and trolling?
@CptFrenchFry I am very impressed with this invention, even though I have not the slightest clue as to what is going on. Looks very shiny and elaborate, which is good for me.
Guys this got him a FULL RIDE TO FUCKING MIT (which he is now attending). It is indeed a real fusion reactor (well, technically 'fusor'). It, by no means, even comes close to positive net energy, don't be ridiculous, if you actually read the article (not that anyone reads these days) ya'll would know. And no, it is not dangerous, it has of course been reviewed by nuclear experts (well as safe as 200 million degree plasma can be).
@dragonamt It is not a nuclear reactor nor does it create fusion. You may have read the article but you still know nothing about fusion reactions. And plasma does not get to 200 million degrees.
@drewsisely I think I meant 200,000 or I was just exaggerating (200 million would on any scale would be just plain nuts). I am a biologist, not a physicist so in the vast realm of nuclear physics I admit to knowing very little. I do know that this fusor meets the lawson criterion and it is currently kept at an MIT facility. I personally have not seen it but I do know some physics majors that have built a fusor and it should fuse. It wont be running your house anytime soon though.
@dragonamt Well I am sorry for correcting you do quickly. The thing is is fusion is more complicated then this, though this technically creates "Fusion" it is not the same as a actual reactor. It does not create fusion with the right materials to actually provide energy. So you are right while it does create fusion it creates it with a easier to fuse fuel making much less powerful. As long as these people continue to think that this fuel with power their homes, they will be homeless.
@drewsisely The kid that built this doesn't claim such a thing. As I said in the original comment to even hint at the notion of a fusor approaching positive output is ludicrous. My understanding was a reactor was anything that contained a controlled nuclear reaction (controlled in the sense that it is not a nuclear weapon), although I could be mistaken. My point was is that doesn't change the fact that this kid had the discipline to plan and build this device, something few teenagers could do.
@dragonamt Hehe. Cool stuff. I wish I had all the money to build that as high vacuum pumps, ducting, and chambers tend to be pretty expensive. Anyways, I hope I can meet him at MIT this coming fall.
if that was a real nuclear reactor and it worked like that, the fucking cops would come, take his property, then the government would use it for their personal gain.
this isn't a fusion reactor there is no fule and plus you need hydrogen nucli to fuse the uranium or plutonium together to produce power. it is cool though
wow, umm, i culd do that 2, throw a couple pipes on a peice of shit, get speakers to make wierd noises, throw something in their to make it rattle, get a stereo reciever*his power thingy* a whirly thing to go on top of it, put an image ot a blue thing with wires on my tv and wham, "reactor" :P
Fucking kid doesn't know his probabilistic decoherence from his quantum indeterminacy. Was waiting for him to start spouting off about Schroedinger evolution from Copenhagen's doctrine and then I would busted up laughing.
if you listen to what he says.... its a fusion reactor. so no radiation would be apparent as there are no heavy metals used. just safe elements like helium and hydrogen
Nothing is illegal if they don't know about it. And, I think there is only regulations on how your allowed to build "SAFTEY COMMISSION" stuff.
So. I don't know if it's illegal but who cares.
DaRocknessMonster2 3 days ago
THIS IS FUSION, NOT FISSION. ALL OF OUR NUKE PLANTS ARE FISSION.
in other words this kid is damn smart...
stayXbrutal78 1 week ago 2
a reactor is fission related not fusion, and technically to make a nuclear reactor you need enriched uranium. Good luck getting your hands on that! nice though.
MyYakBiteBak 2 weeks ago
im interest in being a nuclear physicist so this is interesting, but isn't this technically illegal?
NazieZombiez97 2 weeks ago
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NazieZombiez97 2 weeks ago
i Build a nukular reactor when i was 15. but then i got an arrow in the knee.
burny6666 1 month ago
Do you know, that if you don't properly control a fission, u can get a nuclear explosion???
ienes2 1 month ago
instead of repeating tech we already have, how about experimenting on energy sources we need. Work on making helium 3 or better cheaper solar panels.
GJ3200 2 months ago
now is israel going to hack this?
gatewaysolo104 2 months ago
@gatewaysolo104 israel has had nuclear power for forty years.....You sicken me
Zake4688194 1 month ago
@Zake4688194 that's not what I'm talking about; Israel has been hacking Iran's nuclear power plants and it is now believed the US in involved
gatewaysolo104 1 month ago
This is how I felt playing with old radios when I was 5
kovalakix 2 months ago
This is a fusor, not a "nuclear reactor".
spotlightman1234 2 months ago
NO OFFENSE KID, BUT THIS LOOKS MORE LIKE PLASMA FUSION, IN ANY CASE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
chris03653837 2 months ago
It's a FUSION REACTOR!!! No nuclear reactor!
1993paule 2 months ago
@1993paule thats the same thing dumbass, fission and fusion make up nuclear physics lol
AIRburst95 2 months ago
@AIRburst95 you should be carefulof what you say nuclear fission and fusion are totally different
15Sivle 2 months ago
@15Sivle i didnt say that they were the same WHAT I SAID is that both make up nuclear physics, read before you type
AIRburst95 2 months ago
i d like to see it whn he tried :)
MustafaKurdishTurk 2 months ago
sicko!
badazzmovies 2 months ago
Farnsworth Fusor. Old tech that high school students sometimes use for science fair projects. Look up Polywell to see where this has led.
ShinobuHarvester 2 months ago
i hope you have a radiation suit...
rayzelito 2 months ago
Nuclear reactor my ASS.
You can only fool middle west rednecks.
MrkDjok 2 months ago
Oh yeah... and he made all this by him self :P (I don't see machining tools etc etc...)
NinjaTTT 2 months ago
I can imagine what osama would have done with this. Wait, wouldn't this kid get arrested for this.
mjames4373 2 months ago
nuclear laundry
tenijosh 2 months ago
pfff this is totally his meth lab
forsakenworlddragons 2 months ago
@103kon Neutrons aren't that penetrating and either the body of the reactor obstructs them or his skin does. I assume he doesn't sustain it and if he did he wouldn't care if his curcuits exploded because he would be rich having made fusion power work economically, which he didn't!
will34uk 2 months ago
oh yeah theres red light spinning fuckni radioactive shit there
raikkonen85 2 months ago
The LFTR is coming.
62636263c 2 months ago
I have a few issues with this.... first, those pumps cannot sustain a vacuum pure enough for a fusion reaction. Secondly, if you were able to sustain a fusion reaction, the circuits in your house would explode. Literally. Thirdly, you're standing next to it. Which tells me that you are not aware of the nature of neutron radiation; it isn't something any intelligent person would expose themselves to with NO protection. Lastly, the vibrations from the pumps would also destroy any fusion reaction.
103kon 3 months ago
I'll just convince myself that his intelligence gave him an aura of maturity.
MaximilianMontesa 3 months ago
Won't he be arrested?
TheArceus12345 3 months ago
You did NOT fund this project on a paper boy's wages....
a2zhandi 3 months ago
he WAS 15.
tommy9688 3 months ago
as far as I know nuclear
fusion has never been performed
mattix9 3 months ago
@mattix9 - Fusion has been performed tons of times. The problem is that they always use more energy than they produce. In layman's terms, it takes very intense circumstances to get atoms to smash together with such energy that they fuse together and begin a fusion reaction, and those very intense circumstances require a lot of energy. Currently the input energy requirements are higher than the energy output, so fusion, while doable, isn't yet a viable energy source.
schmidt403 3 months ago
@mattix9 sorry mate, theyve been doing it for years, just hasnt achived a high enough poweroutput-input ratio to be usefull. (look up farnsworth hirsch fusors, they were one of the earliest iec fusion methods as far as im aware)
nigeldanautilus 3 months ago
I have a flashing red light [nuclear siren comes on] ... um...
wadleman 3 months ago
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Is that the kid whose nuke reactor melted down 2 years ago and permanetly destroyed the school,the town, and 1500 square miles of farm land?
kdc43 3 months ago
Don't let Iran see this!
ScienceWillPrevail 3 months ago 18
@ScienceWillPrevail too late...
azertyuiopqsdfghjkl2 3 months ago
@ScienceWillPrevail u can easily go there and tell them lolz
chrisstevensjunior 1 month ago
lol i dunno, just wokin' on my nuclear reactor
thewriter333 3 months ago 11
How can you really believe it produce energy? what do you put inside?deuterium and tritium? where do you buy tritium?there are only 20 Kg of tritium on the whole Earth!!!
where's the proof of energy production?the red lamp? ahahah
Ilmryn88 3 months ago
I'm not sure it would be a "Bargain" if you bought a home-made $2000 reactor.
Long life, out the freaking window much?
OfficialTirade 3 months ago
All of these stuff are easy to learn however you need that materials to apply!
HamudiChi 4 months ago
That is way too small for fusion, and if it was, you wouldn't want to be standing there. Probably just a gas tap or something with some nice red lights.
gurusson 4 months ago
@gurusson look at fusor.net its possible and relatively easy if you can acquire the materials
Ropleydigory 3 months ago
@Ropleydigory Yeh, but my fusion reactor cost about 15 million dollars..no idea how this dude could aquire the materials to build it at home.
gurusson 3 months ago
@gurusson the site says its easily doable for $2000-$4000 depending on how lucky you are with ebay
Ropleydigory 3 months ago
its a fusion reactor not a fission reactor like a normal nuclear reactor
prototype9000 4 months ago
His nuclear reactor must have aged him 5-10 years. He definitely doesn't look 15.
cyphi1 4 months ago 2
If he is 15, I'm Woopy Golberg and Gilbert Gottfried is my pasty love child.
RyanW18ISU 4 months ago
not nuclear, totally wrong title and description
y0utUBeH8r 4 months ago 2
Dexter's Lab!
OldSchoolSkill 4 months ago
Fusion is a dead end technology. Thorium reactors are the future. Thorium is the future of energy.
theBike45 4 months ago
@theBike45 Either that or the result of the niffty little experiment where they shoot a small amount of hydrogen matter with a 500 trillion watt laser that releases I think it was 500 million times the power of the US energy grid. Hopefully if they harness that and make it portable, it could power everything from your flying car to your grandma's exoskeleton. Science makes me wet.
Simlatio 4 months ago
he looks like 25 not 15 LOL
lordisode 4 months ago
@JustinianPictures Then you'd know that with a tokamak reactor you wouldn't end up killing anyone, the problem here is not the creation of energy, or the heat it puts out (as they're generally cooled via having lithium pumped around the walls of the reactor), the problem is how to transfer the energy in small enough amounts that it could be useful. Most definitely, this is fission.
hofmannsapprentice 4 months ago
They told Sheldon Cooper that he couldn't build a nuclear reactor in his garage.
apocolypse623 4 months ago
Nuclear Fusion reactors are on the way. UK scientists in Oxfordshire have been doing fusion experiments for many years, and are on the way to creating long-running reactors for use on the grid.
Also, as an aside, surely given the massive heat built up by process of fusion, that boy up to, his toy, his garage and indeed his street should have been vaporised, melted and discombobulated to kingdom come! Homemade fusion? I think not.
Nosphorus85 4 months ago
@Nosphorus85 Depends on the size, volatility, and nuclear fertility of the fuels used, as well as the containment systems and coolant. His coolant seems pretty well set-up for small-scale fission. And that's what this is.
Fusion produces far more energy and heat, but Fission is far easier.
ESAPOWER 4 months ago
Wow you guys are dumb. Its a vaccum chamber with electricity going through it. Its doesnt cost that much to make.
thatstek 4 months ago
Why does he need a nuclear reactor?
MrChiefBlackhawk 4 months ago 2
@MrChiefBlackhawk
to get bitches
touchmyting 4 months ago
@touchmyting lol
MrChiefBlackhawk 4 months ago
"normal" 15 year olds would save money for fun things like a sport car. Ah well, creating a nuclear reactor is also fun.. I guess
chi6075 4 months ago
@chi6075 I'm sure the quality of his life is going to be way higher with a low level used sports car in highschool than a full ride to MIT as well as a working understanding of nuclear physics by age 15, before he can drive.
No, but seriously, what he should REALLY be doing is sports.
AIgernon 4 months ago
@AIgernon i hope you joke.
Rocksolid88 4 months ago
@AIgernon i dis aggre this young scientist is a bright example of all of the young scientists that made this world great. if all young scientists were to waste their time with sports Einstein wouldn't have came up with relativity good bye GPS and the laser, hawking wouldn't have came up with the big bang theory good bye inspiration to billions and scientific hope for a unified field theory. in a nutshell what i am saying is that without science and young aspiring scientists we would be cavemen
MrAikichemphysicist 4 months ago
@AIgernon i dis aggre this young scientist is a bright example of all of the young scientists that made this world great. if all young scientists were to waste their time with sports Einstein wouldn't have came up with relativity good bye GPS and the laser, hawking wouldn't have came up with the big bang theory good bye inspiration to billions and scientific hope for a unified field theory. in a nutshell what i am saying is that without science and young aspiring scientists we would be cavemen
MrAikichemphysicist 4 months ago
I see these kinds of fake prodigy videos all the time. The real creator is not the kid, he's only a puppet. These are the same kids with those fancy science projects in school that was actually designed and created by the parents.
TheKingPhisher 5 months ago
its a nucelar fusor
adler3008 5 months ago
I plan to do it too.
iDarkBlad3r 5 months ago
fake and gay
counterclockwise123 5 months ago
if he got in MIT, i think they lowered the standards... so he knows what a powersupply is, controlling the amps, and he has a variable transformer to control the voltage, wow... ooh, and flashing lights ! if HE build it alone, nicely done, but it all costs alot of money, money someone has and probably knows of these kind of stuff... an oil pump, lights, and no real conclussion, not impressed... sorry
axke 5 months ago
The neutrons don't give you cancer I hope?
god0fgod 5 months ago
Try building a fission reactor. Oh wait, you can't, the government buttheads will kick down your door.
zardbard 5 months ago
he must have won the lottery or have very rich parents
weyzer01 5 months ago
Did he a nuclear FUSION reactor? I thought those were super difficult if not impossible to build.
zeekertron 5 months ago
@zeekertron no scientists have been fusing atoms for decades as has our sun for billions of years. Building a fusion reactor that could be used in a power plant however has never been accomplished at this time. It 'should' be possible to do but it hasn't happened yet.
dragonamt 5 months ago
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I'm not impressed.
ruy926 5 months ago
Im not impressed.
ruy926 5 months ago
Jimmy Neutron?
shaneomacmcgee 5 months ago
He makes some killer bio diesel fuel with that thing
superhawkn 5 months ago
What about the gamma radiation, shouldn't he be dead?
joey23125 5 months ago
"Herp, hey look guys, I can put a bunch of random parts together and it makes noise! It's definitely a fusion reactor, even though there's no way a 15 yr old kid could build sufficient containment for a fusion reaction in a garage." Seriously people, no one should be believe this is real. Anyone who's studied physics should know that the fusing of atoms releases enormous amounts of energy, which would have to be contained by a very powerful magnetic field which obviously wasn't in this video.
gustoman001 5 months ago
@gustoman001 I wouldn't comment except your "anyone that studied physics.." remark got me. Fusion of single or even thousands of atoms do not produce enormous amount of energy. As opposed to fission. Fusion produces mainly nutrons (near massless) and some photons (massless). That is the problem with fusion, it takes more energy to acheive than it produces, which is why the scientific "holy grail" is Cold Fusion. This a real and common experiment done by many student in universities everyday.
GideonHectorMcLean 5 months ago 2
@GideonHectorMcLean As I understand it, the fusion of two nuclei with lower masses than iron "generally" releases energy, and fusion reactions have an energy density far greater than nuclear fission. This would naturally lead me to think that any kind of reaction, except maybe for a fake one in a garage, would have some kind of output, which would have to be contained somehow.
gustoman001 5 months ago
@gustoman001 I tried to post a web address for Discovery Magazine that has an article which explains this kids story but appearently we can't post other web sites here. So..you should try doing a google search on Thiago Olson. I am not trying to start an argument at all. Just thought you may be interested.
GideonHectorMcLean 5 months ago
not as cool as the nuclear boyscout
ricktbdgc 5 months ago
he doesnt look 15 at all..
hofmannsapprentice 5 months ago 28
@hofmannsapprentice that is what radiation does to you
iamshootful 4 months ago
soooooooo. where are the feds?
zenix1717 5 months ago
what? he's 15? looks like 23 or 24 yrs old.
profuse007 5 months ago
can i make my own electricity with it???
maxxbad17 5 months ago
@maxxbad17
Not with that kind of reactor.
Chemtech2010 5 months ago
his old man must have been an electrical eng or something unless he brought all that gear!?! expensive.
great work tho
militantmindset 5 months ago
what's the power output? what's the fuel?
moatwog 5 months ago
@moatwog puppies
RiSe1993 5 months ago
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nlydeen 6 months ago
I could build that... i just don't feel like it though
modgemtb 6 months ago 57
theres one in south korea that is just fantastic to watch power up. saw it on a brian cox video. they cant figure out a way to inject the fuel effectively. bummer.
papatooth1 6 months ago
Wow, this is so awesome, good going man...
toniodmonio 6 months ago
Yeah where are the fuckin fuel rods!?
sickasso72 6 months ago
@sickasso72 Nuclear fusion = no rods. You're thinking about fission.
qed100 6 months ago
@sickasso72 Fusion doesn't use fuel rods. In fact, nuclear fission reactors such a LFTR do not use fuel rods, either. Not everything is ancient Uranium technology, get with the times, dinosaur.
TheInternetizen 5 months ago
It remember me to GarrysMod
Olpster 6 months ago
well plasma isnt 200 million degrees... It is a 46,000 degree 4th matter. Easily created wtih an electrical arc and air mixture.
metalcody25 6 months ago
@metalcody25 well yea but 46 thousand degree would never start an fusion
Bloff89 5 months ago
where do you find the parts for a reactor
101andrewj 6 months ago
"Mommy and daddy have so much money. They gave me $1 million dollars to waste building a nuclear reactor"
lavaicecube22 6 months ago
There is no way in hell he is 15.
EpicSmartAss 6 months ago 4
@EpicSmartAss he looks like 19-20.
DooMeh1 6 months ago
@DooMeh1 no, thats a person that doesnt smoke -.- im guessing ur a smoker.
TheShadow960 6 months ago
@EpicSmartAss Narration says he built it at 15. Doesn't say he was still 15 when this video was shot.
qed100 6 months ago
and he doesn't mind being exposed to neutron radiation? hasn't he ever heard of a neutron bomb? sure he gets to go to MIT but then he dies of [insert organ here] cancer in 10 years.
oxysean 6 months ago
I think this is the guy that also spent all Christmas wrapping copper coils with his parents and built a linear particle accelerator in his garage as well.
frankfritter35 6 months ago
this guy needs to be kept safe from terrorists because they could kidnapp him and make him biuld a bomb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gmosphere 7 months ago
Ya know it not hard to make one of these. I dont know why popsci interveiwed him.. and he dosent look 15 ether
07734world 7 months ago
Can you make a ray sphere and give it to me so I can be all electrical and shit
psntanner11man 7 months ago
I build a time machine, but all I need are the crystals to make it work, they should be coming in the mail in about 2 more days.
RespectMyHate 7 months ago
@RespectMyHate You mean, they should come sometime tomorrow or last week, right? :P
steidl001 7 months ago
he's getting fusion and fission mixed up, if he cant tell between them how can he build a reactor..... THIS IS FAKE.
13marriner24 7 months ago
@13marriner24 No, he's not getting them mixed up, you are. Yes it's hard to believe, but this is fusion. Most of what you have heard about fusion is related to getting more energy out than you put in, so you can use it as a power source. This is not doing that, it is using more energy than it puts out, but it generates neutrons, which are useful to do other experiments with. The term 'reactor' can be confusing, the device is often just called a fuser. Google: Farnsworth–Hirsch fusor
genicnz 7 months ago
@genicnz nuclear fission is when you fire a neutron at an atom of a radioactive material eg, uranium-235 or plutonium- 239, and enery is release along with 2-3 more neutrons, this is what happenes in nuclear reactions in powerstations today.
now. nuclear fusion is how the sun produces power, this is when two nuclei release energy when they are fused together to form a single larger nucleus. ALL FUSION REACTORS THAT ARE MAN MADE PRODUCE LESS ENERGY THAN ARE PUT IN, this defeats the object.
13marriner24 7 months ago
@antharesprocyon you're an idiot. Of course neutrons go through anything. Also, who would you rather believe, a kid who made a fusion reactor, or someone who doesn't know what stainless steel is?
Jakedasnake1066 7 months ago
Chuck Norris made a nuclear reactor in the womb.
Henry92RLC 7 months ago 2
its a nuclear coffee machine
ging3r123 7 months ago
I shit my pants.
HelloHansSolo 8 months ago
if this is real : all ppl on the blpck will have cancer D:
if this is fake. : stop scaring peple
northstarprovids 8 months ago
@northstarprovids actually, nuclear reactors don't give people cancer for the most part, especially fusion reactors.
cenotosa1 7 months ago
im hoping this is a joke....
chevykid241 8 months ago
I doubt this is real. En was that cherenkov iight on the screen?
TitoTyfus 8 months ago
15-years old guy, why don't you go smoke blunts like all the others??? Is your dad happy to had a nuclear reactor in his garage???????
Rove82 8 months ago
@Rove82 If all 15 year old guys smokes blunts like all the others, we would have no scientists, inventors, artists, or intelectuals. Im fairly certain that if there were less of you and more of him, we'd hav a unifying feild theory, a cure for cancer, and be on mars by now. I can't even imagine a world full of unmotivated low lifes like you *shudders*
you probably will say that this kid has no life.
but doesnt he have a more meaningful life that yours of getting high and trolling?
Windspirit21 8 months ago 2
@Windspirit21 YOU WIN!!! but i was only joking...
Rove82 8 months ago
@CptFrenchFry I am very impressed with this invention, even though I have not the slightest clue as to what is going on. Looks very shiny and elaborate, which is good for me.
BeepimajeepBeep 8 months ago
"Neutrons can go through anything including the standard steel walls"
1:50
Cool story bro. They can't do that. You're probably confused with gamma-radiation.
AntharesProcyon 8 months ago
@AntharesProcyon I think he made a mistake. I hope he did. We can't somebody that doesn't know that with a fusion reactor.
SoSandvich 8 months ago
@SoSandvich
Someone who doesn't know that can't build such things. But that's just my opinion.
AntharesProcyon 8 months ago
Not fusion, its ion multipacting
dachhh 8 months ago
Cool, you created a fusion reactor.... Now get it to put out more power than it takes in. If you can't do that you can't do anything special.
metzger90 8 months ago
i am in doubt if this is true. this is a laboratory like in chemistry, but where is the steam heater or the radiation counter?
zdrastvutye 8 months ago
can you power a play station with that thing?
kjah11 8 months ago
A Farnsworth Fusor. Been known for 50 years. Can't be scaled up for power. Needs a hard vacuum and deuterium gas.
oracle2world 8 months ago
You guys are just mad that hes smarter than you guys LOL!
JDFromSac 8 months ago
Dude, quit playin with your dads vacuum sputtering system while he's at work .
intrptr 8 months ago
Tommy Knockers
intrptr 8 months ago
i heard about some kid who tried to do something like this and gave his family and his town radiation poisoning
scapegoat666 8 months ago
@scapegoat666 I doubt that. You may have read an article but the rest from your limited imagination.
AnnabellsCurse 8 months ago
bullshit not real
BassPounderX 8 months ago
Guys this got him a FULL RIDE TO FUCKING MIT (which he is now attending). It is indeed a real fusion reactor (well, technically 'fusor'). It, by no means, even comes close to positive net energy, don't be ridiculous, if you actually read the article (not that anyone reads these days) ya'll would know. And no, it is not dangerous, it has of course been reviewed by nuclear experts (well as safe as 200 million degree plasma can be).
dragonamt 8 months ago 27
@dragonamt It is not a nuclear reactor nor does it create fusion. You may have read the article but you still know nothing about fusion reactions. And plasma does not get to 200 million degrees.
drewsisely 6 months ago
@drewsisely I think I meant 200,000 or I was just exaggerating (200 million would on any scale would be just plain nuts). I am a biologist, not a physicist so in the vast realm of nuclear physics I admit to knowing very little. I do know that this fusor meets the lawson criterion and it is currently kept at an MIT facility. I personally have not seen it but I do know some physics majors that have built a fusor and it should fuse. It wont be running your house anytime soon though.
dragonamt 6 months ago
@dragonamt Well I am sorry for correcting you do quickly. The thing is is fusion is more complicated then this, though this technically creates "Fusion" it is not the same as a actual reactor. It does not create fusion with the right materials to actually provide energy. So you are right while it does create fusion it creates it with a easier to fuse fuel making much less powerful. As long as these people continue to think that this fuel with power their homes, they will be homeless.
drewsisely 6 months ago
@drewsisely The kid that built this doesn't claim such a thing. As I said in the original comment to even hint at the notion of a fusor approaching positive output is ludicrous. My understanding was a reactor was anything that contained a controlled nuclear reaction (controlled in the sense that it is not a nuclear weapon), although I could be mistaken. My point was is that doesn't change the fact that this kid had the discipline to plan and build this device, something few teenagers could do.
dragonamt 6 months ago
@dragonamt Hehe. Cool stuff. I wish I had all the money to build that as high vacuum pumps, ducting, and chambers tend to be pretty expensive. Anyways, I hope I can meet him at MIT this coming fall.
Myke1576 6 months ago
get a life ~_~
nisim2000 8 months ago
@nisim2000 this an awesome thing to do, when engineers do soemthing they throughly enjoy it
boltjet135 8 months ago
@nisim2000 That won't just get him money, but a whole lot of nerd pussy.
devils2006 8 months ago
why in the hell would u even make somthing like that and put it up on youtube
hoganiancinema00 9 months ago
i feel bad for everyone standing in that room lol
hoganiancinema00 9 months ago
if that was a real nuclear reactor and it worked like that, the fucking cops would come, take his property, then the government would use it for their personal gain.
Haknish 9 months ago
0:53 Glow in the dark
Films4You 9 months ago
I think i may have been watching to much Science Fiction. That reactor just looks so.... Primitive. I don't know why.
1257100 9 months ago
3500 $ lost
Iliapelaez 9 months ago
my microwave can do that too!
roflwaffle12321 9 months ago
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this isn't a fusion reactor there is no fule and plus you need hydrogen nucli to fuse the uranium or plutonium together to produce power. it is cool though
mdluby10 9 months ago
this isn't a fusion reactor there is no fule and plus you need hydrogen nucli to fuse the uranium or plutonium together to produce power.
mdluby10 9 months ago
That did'nt prove anything. Got uranium?
Rodger2727 9 months ago
@Rodger2727 ediot he sayd fusion not fission fussion is what happens in the sun fission is what happens in a nuclear bomb
skimowhite586 9 months ago
lets try something new here, lets not call anything a fusion reactor if no fusion occurs inside of it
WillardE4 9 months ago
wow, umm, i culd do that 2, throw a couple pipes on a peice of shit, get speakers to make wierd noises, throw something in their to make it rattle, get a stereo reciever*his power thingy* a whirly thing to go on top of it, put an image ot a blue thing with wires on my tv and wham, "reactor" :P
crownedman104 9 months ago
Fucking kid doesn't know his probabilistic decoherence from his quantum indeterminacy. Was waiting for him to start spouting off about Schroedinger evolution from Copenhagen's doctrine and then I would busted up laughing.
BlahBlahBlah55209 9 months ago
OMG nerds its not NUCLEAR and its not Thiago Olson its David Hahn at 17 and the reactor in the pict is Fusion Reactor (aND thats not radioactive)
cankul98 9 months ago
if you listen to what he says.... its a fusion reactor. so no radiation would be apparent as there are no heavy metals used. just safe elements like helium and hydrogen
comancheflyer160 9 months ago
it seems kind of dumb to stand next to something that if it works will release neutrons, the reactor should be shielded
smokescreenninjato 9 months ago