[ RadSafe ] Coming soon to a basement near you???????

Sun Jun 10 18:24:46 CDT 2012

Dear Radsafe,

     The Fusor website is pretty interesting.   Kids and adults doing 
fusion science with
high voltage power supplies, bottles of deuterium, etc.  Normally I  would 
just chuckle about all this,
but I have some concerns.

     The Voltages being used are pretty high, and the  power supplies are 
not necessarily
good, off-the-shelf, well-designed power supplies.

     People are buying lab. bottles of deuterium from  Scientific supply 
houses etc.  For a few hundred $$$.
This is a low-level proliferation hazard.  Transactions should be  tracked. 
 Someone buying more than a 
few lab. bottles of deuterium needs to be tracked.

     One Suitcase nuke from the former USSR, or  wherever, combined with a 
fair amount of
deuterium could produce a home-grown Hydrogen (Fusion) weapon.  D, D  
reaction etc.
It could happen.  It shouldn't be allowed to happen.  No wonder  the 
USA/Allies were so
concerned about that Heavy Water plant in Norway (or wherever) during World 
 War II.
The Hydrogen weapon might have already been in someones mind at that  time.

     I see no evidence of neutron shielding for these  Fusor amateur fusion 
efforts.
Shielding should happen as such experiments are scaled up.

     I'd hate to see what would happen to a safety  official (state 
government level???) on the western
USA coast if some kid were to electrocute himself, and the state official  
knew the
situation.

    Have a safe day...      Regards,    Joseph R. (Joe) Preisig, PhD

In a message dated 6/8/2012 3:06:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
JPreisig at aol.com writes:

Kristian  and Radsafe,

What a seriously cool thread here  on  radsafe.  A small 200 keV 
particle accelerator with  
possibility of having a deuterium and/or tritium source would allow one  to 

do fundamental fusion
research in a rather small academic  and/or corporate environment.  Get  2 
LiI detectors with
a  set of polyethylene Bonner spheres and you can readily measure the   
neutron spectra coming from
your fusion experiment.  Fusion, Cold  Fusion, Warm Fusion,  whatever....

Doggone,  scooped on my research grant  application by a group of 
basement  inventors.  Ouch.

Google search   also      migma AND maglich   (self-colliding   beam 
fusion).

Someone's going to the Fusion  promised-land  well ahead of PPPL 
(Princeton Plasma Physics
Lab)  and/or ITER (International Fusion Effort).   See Radsafe   archives 
for 
very much more information.

Have  a great  weekend!!!!     Regards,   Joseph R.  (Joe)  Preisig, PhD

In a message dated 6/8/2012  12:24:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
doctorbill34 at gmail.com  writes:

When I  worked at Argonne, a group of researchers built  its own homemade
particle  accelerator; didn't bother to tell hp, of  course.

It's a tribute to the  intelligence of American scientists  that most of 
them
survive working under  the conditions they create  for themselves!

Bill Lipton
It's not  about dose, it's about  trust.
On Jun 8, 2012 10:16 AM, "Kristian Ukkonen"  <ktu at iki.fi>  wrote:

> On 6/7/2012 18:17, Ted de Castro   wrote:
>
>> I thought people here might be interested in  seeing  this link telling
>> whomever how to make their own  x-ray  machine.
>>
>> Now "Instructables" is a great  web site with  articles telling you how 
to
>> make all sorts of  interesting and  useful things - and some,  
well.......
>>
>> A while ago they  had a "make a spot  welder from a microwave oven
>> transformer" that  was a major  electrical death trap.
>>
>> Today I got my  usual  email showing new entries and saw this one:
>>
>>   http://www.instructables.com/**id/How-to-X-Ray/<http://www.instru
ctables.com/id/How-to-X-Ray/>
>>
>
>   Nothing new. Already in 50s amateurs were building crude x-ray   
machines
> from 01, 6BK4 triode etc. commercial tubes.. One of   instructions was
> in "amateur scientist" column of Scientific  American  in 7/1956 by
> C.L.Stong. Also there was Van de Graff  generator based  proton/deuteron
> linear accelerator in 8/1971  number.. For a whole  list, see
>   
http://amasci.com/amateur/**sciamdx.html<http://amasci.com/amateur/sciamdx.h
tml>
>
>   Nowadays people are already building inertial electrostatic   
confinement
> deuterium fusion reactors in their basements with  proven  neutron
> production by activation experiments.. X-ray  tubes are so old  news. :)
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Fusor   
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor>
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