page_title: List of Fusor examples
section_title: Amateur
hierarchical_section_title: List of Fusor examples / Fusor examples / Amateur
caption_attribution_description: English: Taylor Wilson presenting his fusor work to Barack Obama.
context_page_description: Fusors have been theoretically studied at multiple institutions, including: Kyoto University, and Kyushu University. Researchers meet annually at the US-Japan Workshop on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion. Listed here, are actual machines 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.
  University of Wisconsin-Madison A group at Wisconsin-Madison has been running a very large, funded, fusor program since 1991.
  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.
  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 using deuterium gas.
  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.
context_section_description: A number of amateurs have built working fusors and detected neutrons.  Many fusor enthusiasts connect on forums 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.  In March 1999, he achieved a neutron rate of 10×10⁵ neutrons per second.  Hull maintains a list of amateurs who have gotten neutrons from fusors.
  Carl Greninger Founded the Northwest Nuclear Consortium, an organization in Washington state which teaches a class of a dozen high school students nuclear engineering principles using a 60 kV fusor.
  Taylor Wilson built a Fusor at 14 years old.
  Matthew Honickman Was a high school student who built a working fusor in his basement in Rochester, New York.
  Michael Li In 2003, Michael Li became the youngest person to build a fusor and won second place in the US's Intel Science Talent Search winning a $75,000 college scholarship.
  Mark Suppes A web designer for Gucci in Brooklyn New York, built a working fusor on a path to building the first amateur Polywell.
  Thiago David Olson Built a 40 kV fusor at age 17, in his home in Rochester, Michigan and placed second in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in 2007.
  Jamie Edwards who fused the atom at 13, at his middle school in England.  He received a letter from the Duke of York, was invited on The David Letterman Show and gave a TED talk.
  Conrad Farnsworth of Newcastle, Wyoming produced fusion in 2011 at 17 and used this to win a regional and state science fair.
caption: Taylor Wilson presenting fusor work to Barack Obama, February 7, 2012
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