Six Inch Cross Fusor

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Jim Kovalchick
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Re: Six Inch Cross Fusor

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I've made some improvements to my cross fusor including getting rid of a wicked leak and arranging the fittings for easier accesses for activation. I believe that I am operating in the 2 x 10⁶ TIER realm. Today I operated at 55 kV and 15 mA for an activation time of 15 minutes. My target was a two inch indium foil.

I'm not satisfied with my NaI detector, peak shaping, and calibration, but it had no problem seeing the lower dominant indium gamma in 900 seconds of counting.

This is getting fun.

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Re: Six Inch Cross Fusor

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Jim and I follow each others work almost daily via e-mail. Jim now has a nice large fusor that is doing great. I applaud his effort and friendship in working things out a bit, especially in regards to our old PNC-1 and remball data collections. Nice work Jim!

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Re: Six Inch Cross Fusor

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Jim Kovalchick,

Your Tungsten Carbide electrode is brilliant!

WC (tungsten carbide) is a neutron reflector, is this a bad thing in the fusor star? Would it enhance fusion yield, or be counterproductive?

WC was used in the original initiator feedback experiments
(Demon Core) during the Manhattan Project, to reflect neutrons back into the initiator. Lewis Slotin fried himself in one experiment, and became a casualty of the project.
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