I have given myself a two month deadline to achieve nuclear fusion. It has been my goal to do nuclear fusion as a high school student (it’s in the blog name, after all) and as my graduation date (scarily) comes closer, I’ve realized that I have to pick up the…

When I started this project about a year ago I had just completed my sophomore year and now I’m about to be a senior in high school (yay!). A lot has changed since then including nearly every component of my fusor system (I think only the NST system is still…

Since my last update more than two months ago, I have made many improvements to Fusor 1. Most significantly, I have finally replaced the HVAC pump that has been a near-constant headache since the beginning of my project. …

After I posted my first light report here, I made a fusor.net post with most of the same information. I had expected to be told that I needed more data or to change something about my setup, but I was apparently too pessimistic as I am now an official fusor.net…

Since I started this project, and as I stated in a previous post, the goal of Fusor 1 has been to take what I have learned with the very crude demo Fusor 0 and apply it to actual fusion with scientific-grade parts and systems. Sunday morning, I came one step…

Over the almost month since I last updated here, I have made monumental progress on my fusion project. Not only have I actually began working with the metal Fusor 1 chamber, but I have achieved first light of the full Fusor 1.1 system and generated plasma within that chamber. In…

Last week, the rest of the fittings, adapters and other parts for Fusor 1 arrived! I put the chamber together last week, but due to a shipping mistake with Kurt J. Lesker (KJLC), did not receive a Conflat to KF adapter that I had ordered for another few days. Additionally…

This last week has been a big one for my fusion project. Firstly, I repaired Fusor 0 and got it working better than when it was first built! I have also made some very interesting voltage and (finally) current measurements that have given me a much better understanding of the…

Since early August, all of my fusor progress has been made in the research and design phase of Fusor 1 as both the grid and bottom plate of Fusor 0 had been severely damaged. …