List of fusor examples

The following is a list of fusor examples, examples of the fusor-type nuclear fusion reactor that uses inertial electrostatic confinement

Professional

Fusors have been theoretically studied at multiple institutions, including: Kyoto University,^[1] and Kyushu University.^[2] Researchers meet annually at the US-Japan Workshop on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion. The following is a list of machines that were actually built.

• Tokyo Institute of Technology has four IEC devices of different shapes: a spherical machine, a cylindrical device, a co-axial double cylinder and a magnetically assisted device.^[3]
• University of Wisconsin-Madison A group at Wisconsin-Madison has been running a very large, funded, fusor program since 1991.^[4]
• Turkish Atomic Energy Authority In 2013 this team built a 30 cm fusor at the Saraykoy Nuclear Research and Training center in Turkey. This fusor can reach 85 kV and do deuterium fusion, producing 2.4×10⁴ neutrons per second.^[5]
• University of Illinois Dr. George Miley's team at the fusion studies laboratory has built a ~25 cm fusor which has produced 1×10⁷ neutrons per second using deuterium gas.^[6]
• University of Sydney Dr. Joseph Khachan's group in the Department of Physics has built a variety of IEC devices in both positive and negative polarities and spherical and cylindrical geometries.^[7]
• Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Researchers at Shahid Beheshti University in Iran have built a 60 cm diameter fusor which can produce 1×10⁷ neutrons per second at 140 kV using deuterium gas.^[8]
• Los Alamos National Laboratory In the late nineties, researchers purposed^[9] and built a fusor-like system for oscillating plasma, inside a fusor. This device is known as the Periodically Oscillating Plasma Sphere or POPS.^[10]
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology For his doctoral thesis in 2007, Carl Dietrich built a fusor and studied its potential use in spacecraft propulsion.^[11] In addition, Tom McGuire did his thesis^[12][13] on fusors with multiple cages and ion guns.
• ITT Corporation Hirschs original machine was a 17.8 cm diameter machine with 150 kV voltage drop across it.^{[citation needed]} This machine used ion beams.
• Phoenix Nuclear Labs has developed a commercial neutron source based on a fusor, achieving 3×10¹¹ neutrons per second with the deuterium-deuterium fusion reaction.^{[citation needed]}

Amateur

Taylor Wilson presenting fusor work to Barack Obama, February 7, 2012

A number of amateurs have built working fusors and detected neutrons. Many fusor enthusiasts connect on forums^[14] and message boards online. Below are some examples of working fusors.

• Richard Hull Since the late nineties, Richard Hull has built several fusors in his home in Richmond, Virginia.^[15] In March 1999, he achieved a neutron rate of 10×10⁵ neutrons per second.^[16] Hull maintains a list of amateurs who have detected neutrons from fusors.
• Carl Greninger Founded the Northwest Nuclear Consortium,^[17] an organization in Washington state which teaches a class of a dozen high school students nuclear engineering principles using a 60 kV fusor.^[18]
• Taylor Wilson built a Fusor at 14 years old in 2008.^[19][20]
• Jackson Oswalt built a Fusor at 12 years age in 2018. He is youngest person to achieve nuclear fusion as described by Guinness World Records ^[21]
• Matthew Honickman Was a high school student who built a working fusor in his basement in Rochester, New York.^[22]
• Michael Li In 2003, Michael Li became the youngest person to date to build a fusor, winning second place^[23] in the US Intel Science Talent Search winning a $75,000 college scholarship.^[16]
• Mark Suppes A web designer for Gucci in Brooklyn New York, built a working fusor on a path to building the first amateur Polywell.^[24][25]
• Thiago David Olson Built a 40 kV fusor at age 17, in his home in Rochester, Michigan and placed second in the International Science and Engineering Fair in 2007.^[26][27][28]
• Jamie Edwards who fused the atom at 13, at his middle school in England.^[29] He received a letter from the Duke of York, was invited on The David Letterman Show and gave a TED talk.^[30]
• Conrad Farnsworth of Newcastle, Wyoming produced fusion in 2011 at 17^[31][32] and used this to win a regional and state science fair.