Fusor Forums

Joe, this is a top-flight effort, and I am thrilled to see what appears to be a novel paradigm in fusor efficiency developing in your work. The regime of high pressure, small electrodes, high potential, and high neutron yield is undoubtedly a new domain worthy of further attention. Have you provided...

I take low-light photos of radiation-related subjects frequently. I picked out a Fujifilm X-E2 mirrorless camera with that application specifically in mind, and it meets expectations. Obviously, you can spend a lot more money on a better camera and ass-kicking lenses. In particular, this is the doma...

Hi Jamie, This is a very good experiment, incorporating both a moderator removal check and a D2-vs-air check, as well as multiple detectors (you had the EPD area monitor as a back-up, and it got some dose). Neutrons are detectable on the He-3 with the moderator off, but the count is much higher with...

Tom kindly sent me an advance copy of his book, which I read last weekend. He has chronicled an inspirational phenomenon in nuclear physics: the ability of an enthusiastic child (a bright one, necessarily with the support of committed parents and mentors) to participate meaningfully in this domain p...

Indium melts at 157 degrees C.

The TC gauge thread is 1/8" NPT.

I got the green light from the DOE radiological assessment team that takes care of the National Nuclear Museum here in Albuquerque. How the museum wants to display it as a loaned item is still being resolved, but hopefully it will be there soon. On another front, I collected about 250 mg of uranium ...

Hello Steve, You have described a very challenging seal for a hobbyist to make by himself, and a costly one to obtain from a professional. I think there are preferred alternatives to the glass-metal seal in this situation as you have described it. A master scientific glassblower would make this seal...

As a very amateur glassblower with a self-sustaining hobby making decorative plasma tubes, I have made tungsten-borosilicate seals via uranium glass and Houskeeper ribbon seals from copper straight to borosilicate. Both types are challenging to perform reliably in my experience. The Dumet or platinu...

I think a better place for this topic is in the Radiation Detection forum. Some luminous paints are made with scintillating materials like ZnS. Cheap glow-in-the-dark paint from a hobby store is almost always ZnS in my experience, and so is a decent scintillator for electrons. Unfortunately, this pa...