Homemade Nuclear Reactor

[Revelde20]

I'm not impress ! if anyone have the means to build it and access to the knowlege could do it too. you got to have the money to invest in an Idea.

[ForsetiGoD]

Fake.

[seansdoesntdoweed]

Look who doesnt get laid...

[Halpin994]

fission is more efficient, nuclear reactor noob haha

[FutureEntrepenuer]

@Halpin994

actually fusion is...noob

[Halpin994]

@FutureEntrepenuer your right, had a test on that today in physics, and i got that question about it right so, no i am not a noob.

[vortexgaming77]

Thumbs up if Minecon brought you here!

[BobMcCob]

fusion?



[Zendelish]

and you be exposed to radioactive shit and you supposed be dead... Clear and simple FAKE!!!

[thrillseqr]

Fusion does not emit radiation.

[hackerhell900]

@Zendelish

Good joke! I laughed.

[elipaynter12]

hope blows up

[rouncer81]

fucking a

[TheRacistOwl]

Totally fake its an old amp wired to some vacum cleaner parts and a fish tank cleaner

[pureawesomeness2012]

did you use thorium in your reactor? i hear they are in smoke detectors.

[lizijie98]

gl dieing :)

[tomek92pl]

building a nuclear reactor in your house... totally safe.

[MrAlzene]

don't be suprised when the fbi are knocking on your door

[Metal404Head]

@MrAlzene They won't knock. He'll just wake up in a room without windows, hand cuffed to a metal chair that's bolted to the floor.

Then the questions start...

[Ganjaforce100]

Wow! when I was fifteen, I was still learning to masterbate properly not building an A-Bomb.

[MatSpengerOfficial]

I don't even need a fusion reactor, I can just grab two atoms and knead them together like play dough.

[nigeldanautilus]

IEC fusion (i assume), pointless but extremely awesome

[Jakobus999]

as if anyone believes this!!

a sustained fusion reaction gets you an instant noble price

[TheHalflife123]

@Jakobus999 i think its fake

[silveeto]

@Aephyr .... LOL!!!!!

[raynal2]

N'importe quoi. Si On avait découvert comment faire la fusion, ça se saurait et c'est pas un gars de 15 ans qui y arrivera, même génie soit-il...

[kingofallthieves]

yay, my first meth lab

[Aephyr]

but will it blend?

[NumberNile]

... Where did a 15 year-old get reactor grade nuclear fuel???

[idiot0of0fire]

@NumberNile lol, for fusion you just use deuterium gas, its not as difficult as one might think. almost anyone can do this....if there rich. the cheapest you could most likely make one that actually causes fusion to take place is maybe $1000. this one he has was probably $5000-$10,000. but he got into university with it so id say its worth it.

[QuagmiresGiggity]

@NumberNile He got it from the Lybians who thought he was going to make them a bomb, he sent them a shoddy bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts instead. How else is he going to generate the 1.21 Gigawatts of power to run the flux capacitor?

[nambatzis]

Are you sure it's not a macerator?

[frankhaugen]

Now, I'm no physics professor, but if super-giant labs can't get a fusuion reactor going, how has this kid done it??

[EastenNinja]

@frankhaugen its fission not fusion

[Jormungrandrserpent]

damn i feel stupid :( hes making me look bad :P

[midnull]

I wish my mommy and daddy gave me the money to do some of my experiments...

[brockunc]

Anyone who actually thinks this guy has created fusion in his garage are idiots. Plasma and fusion are two completely different things. Do you have an idea of the pressures and temperatures needed to to create and sustain a fusion reaction? Look at our sun and your have some idea. Not to mention what is require to make it a viable form of energy production (where energy produced is greater than energy required to run it).

[Diamonddavej]

@brockunc It's a Farnsworth Fusor. It was invented in the 60's but the design was abandoned for the Tokamak because researchers found the Fusor design could never be scaled up and generate more energy than is put in. They are used in labs to make neutrons.

[Heeimweired]

Just so u all know yes its real but he wont be actually getting a very high rate on his fusion because his charged latices are no where near perfect spheres (which they need to be for it to work properly)

[beenohopps]

My crystal meth runs on nuclear reactors.

[dh3684]

guess whos going to mit...

[midnull]

@dh3684

I would too if my mom and dad gave me the money to build and show off my toys.

[bronsongross]

You know what else causes bubbles? Vibration...

[CamronJLB]

my reactor runs on crystal meth

[laslos3]

@CamronJLB I bet it only runs after asking it several times, and is always "just around the corner." lol

[MrSuperZangief]

@CamronJLB I run on Crystal meth 

[N0M4dIC1RST]

This guy can't have learned and made this all by himself except if there was somebody to show this to him and PAY for all this. I am actually trying to make such a reactor (it's a fusor, right?) and the no. 1 problem I actually got is getting the money to do it and simply FINDING all these components.

[midnull]

@N0M4dIC1RST

Yeah, some of the equipment he has is VERY expensive. Doubt he did it all himself or even PAID for all the stuff.

[PlanetGamesHD]

but you don't have uranium xD

[WJSED0000]

wtf? he is 15.........

[HedgehogStudios1]

For all the dumbasses that think this is fake...

It's real...

And it's fusion

[sandcut1]

@HedgehogStudios1 What about the nuclear part of this. What does that mean?? very cool though.

[william1997kso]

These thing is real cool

[gustoman001]

I call bs. Fire the downvote cannons!

[pyroscience42]

Anyone can really do this, except you need ALOT of money!!!!

[TheStoned88]

bet he won the science fair...

[Toastdude1212]

Isn't that just a Farnsworth fusor?

[midnull]

@Toastdude1212

Yes. LOL not impressive when you know what it really is. ;P

[victyeung]

I think a lot of people don't know what is the different between "fission" or "fusion".

They just don't like a nuclear reactor on their neighborhood.

[fmeriqui]

for all the dumbasses who are wondering if this is real....

its not....

[TheThorguitar]

with the right tools and materials cold fusion reactors can be made relatively easily consistent measured positive output however aint so easy

[LordAmbitious]

@TheThorguitar no such thing as cold fusion.

[TheThorguitar]

@LordAmbitious we can attain cold fusion just not enough to get consistent positive gain from it yet, it's still in it's infancy cold fusion does take place and is proven, tho it will take a lot of development and funding before it will be of any use it's only problem at the moment is inconsistency's in it's measurements and lack of proper research funding but real and useable cold fusion if they can perfect it is a very real possible future clean energy source

[LordAmbitious]

@TheThorguitar I've toured the Tokamak at General Atomics. Fusion can only be attained at extremely high temperatures. Otherwise the electromagnetic repulsion prevents any of the nuclei from getting anywhere near each other.

[TheThorguitar]

@LordAmbitious there's much thats still not completely understood lets just say i'm an optamist lol :)

[Sirlancelotime]

Very easy, thanks 

[skipstalforce]

Gets your carpets incredibly clean!

[canesfan8193]

is this legit?

[maokly1]

this is not real, fusion needs millions of degrees...

[thrillseqr]

@maokly1 Actually, fusion needs a large amount of EV's, which can be achieved by millions of degrees. That does not mean that millions of degrees is the only possible way necessarily.

[megasmart1337]

ceap !!

[cute7blue]

Dont have a mini 3 Mile Island meltdown!.........OR YOU WILL DIE!!!

[GumbyGoneWildProds]

1 POINT 21 GIGAWATTS! GREAT SCOTT!!!

[XRayCam]

Mkay....how do we even know this WORKED??

[CrudeDude]

WOW! That looks JUST LIKE the nuclear reactor I built in MY garage......

[bigboy45454545]

People are stupid. Why are you stupider than most?

[zerocool00045073]

fake..

[Kote12TK]

Okay now, make a working model to produce ELECTRICITY. Small enough that i can install inside the hood of my ELECTRIC SUV. And another one to be place inside my basement to power all my electric need for the whole house. And make sure to eliminate that NOISE, not just insulate.

[Kelarre653]

@Kote12TK

You can't eliminate the noise, because some energy is always wasted. :p

[Kote12TK]

@Kelarre653 When i say eliminate not insulate. Remember the noise is nothing else but a wave when view on a scope, to eliminate the noise have a machine to produce a negative wave of a noise. It's like a wave with + value produce a - value of same wave. Got it? It's like a 101 people talking at the same time. eliminate the 100 just to hear that 1 voice.

[santasa99]

one day he will go out of garage glowing like a mushroom after Nagasaki

[pflykyle]

it is a fusor. technically it is a fusion reaction. the temperatures inside can be incredibly high, but the natural forces are holding that at bay. however, this kind of device is useless for energy generation. this reaction is not really sustainable like a fusion reactor. and yes, fusion will produce neutrons.

[Justas923]

Everyone should build these reactors in their homes. If I had one in my house I would say: "Suck it electric companies!MuHAHAHAHAHA!"

[VSCreative]

Nice is this ur dad's?dushbag

[tincovilya]

Yeah there are no Neutrons produced in a fusion reaction. There is certainly protons produced... Neutrons are produced by FISSION reactions, looks like you fucked up big time. Fusion (the most basic) p-p reaction takes protons, slams them together, makes He3 then does it again makes another He3 then those two fuse together into He4 and PROTONS (alpha particle too but it's like protons so whatever). Regardless you have accomplished nothing. You did waste money on all that stuff though...

[Tiboroun]

@tincovilya Uh...fusion does.

[WebMST3K]

@tincovilya

Yes, some types of fusion reaction do indeed produce neutrons. D-D reactions, that is to say reactions using deuterium, (a nucleus made of one proton and one neutron) produce He3, a nucleus containing two protons and one neutron. The remaining neutron goes flying free.

[tincovilya]

@WebMST3K

You are absolutely correct. I just didn't realize the maker of this video took the time to make that much deuterium. If you read an easy source (wiki for example), or if you already know about deuterium, you would know its natural abundance is practically 0 and refining it is an industrial process not a "I did this at home". I personally do not know the process to make deuterium but I would imagine the process would be extremely tedious. Other reactions certainly

[tincovilya]

@WebMST3K

do produce neutrons but they are notoriously hard to create. The predominate reaction scientists (not 15 year olds) would like to use involves catalysts like Lithium to make it easier for the protons to fuse. Let's put it this way, if this was real you wouldn't be getting ANY power from coal, natural gas, wind etc. because this kid would be a billionaire and all our energy needs would be solved. My point about neutrons was more for the fact many things produce neutrons and that all he

[tincovilya]

@WebMST3K

would have needed was a fission source that produces neutrons (most do) and then he could have just put it next to his 'detector' and yeah...

[777mjt]

its just a great big coffee maker for fucks sake

[B44rules]

@hackstermaster you're retarded

[Nickael7]

@johny260, even lead doesn't give enough protection against neutron radiation. You need very large blocks of lead with other alloys in it. A real fusion reactor uses the power of the sun. This means you need tritium or deuterium gases heated to 100 millions centigrade to cause a fusion. Otherwise, there is no fusion simple as it is. If it shoots even small amount of neutron RADS you'd be in very big trouble ! With the authorities !

[ziggyboi1995]

Where did you get the fissionable material

[Nickael7]

You need gazified deuterium or tritium to achieve a fusion reaction, I can believe that a lot of people fall for it. Still, the radiation from a true fusion is dangerous, is like receiving sunlight without the magnetosphere and ozone which protects us all from certain DEATH.

[MrFarklefreak]

Looks like someone's daddy has a lot of toys.

[djsoundmeizter]

its not a nuclear reactor. its just a FUSION reactor. otherwise they wouldent be standing so close to the reactor itself.

[gmlviper]

Yeah right, the same exact setup I got in my basement... I've used it to catch geek chicks with it :)

[KidFunkyFry15]

@gmlviper no one should argue with that

[Xu53r1X]

@kontaktseistrup its not fake, infact its very real and very easy to build, he built his with the best parts you can find so his is worth around $3,500. I myself am building one and have found most parts for a total of $1000

[kontaktseistrup]

fake

[HypoTurtleProduction]

@kontaktseistrup is it?

[yaykaboom]

wanna work for the al-qaeda? the pay's good.. u get a jacket made out of bombs and a slice of camel meat every month

[Heltz21]

First place science project right here! Well Done!

[Nvidiaguides]

Oh my gosh! very nice!

[ravedged]

the funny thing is most Americans with no knowledge of nuclear science will believe this

[zerophear0]

@ravedged the funny thing is that YOU 're looking very stupid here. This shit is real just google for "fusor".

[eduardodc3]

Price?

[TeslaNick2]

Nice, if you can afford all the kit needed to build one... And I'm sure the fuel isn't cheap or easy to come by either...

[OfficerNelson]

@TeslaNick2 Fuel isn't that expensive. I think most homemade reactors use heavy water, which isn't cheap but it doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

[Spoookyii]

well done to the kid,its good to see a youngster doing sometihng wrthwhile with his time,nice one,well done :)

[hirep123]

if you knew anything about neutron radiation you would know this is completely wrong

[jpdidit]

It's nice to see that not all teenagers are sports crazed idiots. Some one give this guy a medal.

[mecaguy03]

Ok, so he has made fusion, but this thing wont create power. Profitable fusion is very hard to practically make.

[Valendros]

Very cool! I assume you're not producing any energy with it yet. How much power are you using to achieve fusion?

[Niel8181]

sell it to al"qaida for 500million dollars..

[zarni000]

@snowleopard010

it's fusion not fission...jeez do some reading

[sjors00666]

much respect to him but i don't think he has many friends

[richard6183]

Würde es nicht Leute wie "stephendonnelly88" auf unserer Welt geben, würden wir gemessen der "Technik" noch hinter dem Ochsenkarren, als vermutlich größte techn. Errungenschaft hinterher hinken...

Das Future gehört all denen, welche den eigenen "Geist" frei und verantwortlich freien lauf lassen...

Neider gab es schon zu allen Zeiten... werden aber die Zukunft (auch der Technik) nicht verhindern können, da leben tun die ja auch schon sehr angenehm der bisherigen... "gutes gelingen"

[Nezzytheawesome]

How efficient is this?

In other words, how much energy does it consume and how much does it produce?

[ettorejohn]

damn this motherfucka is smart

[suedebear]

I have to admit, i understood very little of this. Other than realizing that thats one awesome machine the kid built. Hes like a DIY god.

[looserslam]

Now harness the power for yourself and take over the world!!!!!!

[thoosejakob149]

he build it without hes parents knew until they saw the electric bill

[albgk]

I want to know where he got the money to make this...

[banzaofking]

Where can he find the materials?

[ProxyNuker]

Why the fuck does everyone think nuclear energy = nuclear bomb? There's nothing explosive about it the most explosive property is the water they use to cool it heating up to make a steam bomb.

[HeyMarkedOne8]

That really works and makes energy or what?

[DvineGaming]

Honestly this doesn't look hard at all.

[gamehero77]

awesome, but how do you gain energy from the fusion reaction in this case? someone answer plz thanks :)

[taruler16]

the kid make a farnsworts fusor... its not a big deal cool but not a big deal just expensive. Thing about it is its a better neutron generator than it is a fusion reactor.

[MAJIKVEGGIE]

Hoax



[tbsla13]

Very cool, I wish more people did stuff like this. Americans as a whole are scientifically illiterate. Plus, this would make a hell of a show piece for house parties! Well done mate!

[DrFunnelCakes]

Wow! I can't believe the amount of idiotic comments on this video. This is FUSION you idiots! Building a fusion reactor is relatively easy. All you need is a few parts from an old CRT monitor, some transformers, and a variac, etc. However, harvesting energy from it is another story. What this kid has built is in no way dangerous. Other than some soft X-ray emissions, the worst that could happen is the tube breaks, and the device stops working.

[ballagie]

Off topic I know, but can anyone tell me how the reaction in a fission reactor (power plant) is inhibited/slowed down? Just wondering why the fuel isn't used up instantly (explosively).

[badgerman6666]

why didn't some goverment agency come and arrest him to have a nuclear reactor you need plutonium or some kind of radiative material which is pretty much illegal

[FatBlackFrancis]

@badgerman6666 You don't need plutonium in a bloody fusion reactor!! FISSION reactors take large elements (uranium, thorium, etc) and 'fissile' them apart into smaller elements. FUSION reactors are the opposite, they take tiny elements (hydrogen, helium, etc) and fuse them into larger elements. Uranium and such are illegal, dangerous and would make you die, helium on the other hand is abundant in the atmosphere, harmless to humans and makes your voice squeaky. Good god, people!

[ThisIsSATA]

@FatBlackFrancis

Well.... some kinds of helium (industrial, dirty helium) are deadly, if you breathe them they will suck all the air from your lungs = ur dead.

[daveman12000]

@FatBlackFrancis they use hydrogen in fusion i think.

[Unic1981]

@FatBlackFrancis , a bit of correction. Helium is not exactly harmless to humans. It's lethal in big quantity. :-)

[WaitWhatWasThat1]

If this were real this is a class C nuclear device which is illegal, you have been reported to the CIA

[joshtong1234]

@WaitWhatWasThat1

That's great the CIA will have a new recruit then...

[MRGUBGUB1]

Amazing, but where did he get the materials?

[ryancolemanstudios]

See you in prison.

[yourboycal]

So you telling me this punk kid actually made a running stable effect nuclear fission reactor .? In his basement? What it takes millions of dollars , thousands of scientists and a shit load of equpiment to do ? Is that what im being shown in this video ? Or is someone actually gonna say something that is relevant to this video in the comment section.

[elchippe]

@yourboycal scientists do on a large scale with the aim of producing a lot of energy and this boy did to a much smaller scale, if you want to use it to produce energy spend more to produce than using it.

[yourboycal]

@elchippe I know they do it on a large scale. But billy made one in his basement. If you can make a small version this easily , surley he can make a productive one where the ratio of consumption to output is lower. even in a small scale? I want one in my backyard. What do you say to that?

[elchippe]

@yourboycal larger that scale more the complexity, you have to input some energy in order to obtain some energy if you do it a small scale you output energy will be small so is impractical man.

[smeghead666]

This is a great big middle finger up the collective intelligence of any world power *trying* to become a player on the nuclear stage

[hal970fx]

@smeghead666

Generally speaking, the HirschMeeks fusor is grossly inefficient and doesn't produce enough energy from its fuel to justify commercial use. a fair bit of research has been done on it, and the design has been refined to what is known as the Polywell. The currently anticipated technology is the Tokomak configuration at the moment though, with not much attention payed to other fusion contenders.

[smeghead666]

@hal970fx What on earth compelled you to write that?

[hal970fx]

@smeghead666

The assertion that this somehow a 'big middle finger' towards anybody. I just felt like sharing some excess information. :D

[hal970fx]

@hal970fx

*that this is

I can't brain today, I have the dumb.

[SkateAKAalex]

@dslcobra I don't follow, however, do you beleive the concept of multiple dimensions within our own? I think thats what your talking about. If not would you care explaining in a pm? Im really interested in physics...

[SkateAKAalex]

@dslcobra So do you think Eistiens theory (correct my spelling) is correct? 1/r = 1/0 = infi.(way shortened answer, look it up if you dont know)? If so then a something such as a star or even a black hole can be made with anything from the sizes of an atom to a universe..

[SkateAKAalex]

@SkateAKAalex My bad right answer for the wrong equationi think.

[SkateAKAalex]

@dslcobra Fusion is only possible in one place known in nature, and has only been attempted on earth a few times, all of which have had non measureable results. Want fusion? Fly your car to the sun xD

[stinktnaarkaas]

he will blow the earth

[TheCaptainLulz]

the real trick as always is finding a way to make it use less energy than it eats.

[twitchalmighty]

I've actually been thinking about using the Tokamak Form of Fusion Reactor, but building two of them interconnected, transferring plasma in opposing directions, colliding deuterium nuclei from opposing directions, in theory initiating fusion after enough plasma has been produced, I'm just uncertain if the idea would work or not.

[00011theman]

@twitchalmighty Do you know how unstable that would be?