Fusor Progress Log

Objective:

Build an Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusor (IEC), detect fast neutrons and test new experiments to increase the rate of fusion.

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December 2020

Main Focus: Collecting parts and gaining a deeper understanding of how IEC works.

Progress:

• Detailed schematic of reactor
• Bought 6 way 6" CF Port High Vacuum Chamber
• Read first 2 chapters of: Inertial Electrostatic Confinement by Miley, Murali

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January 2021

Main Focus: Grants, purchasing parts, designing potential experiments.

Progress:

• $8,000 USD grant secured from Emergent Ventures (Thank you Tyler Cowen!)
• Negotiating prices for diffusion pump, mechanical pump other vacuum parts
• Understood the main barriers stopping IEC fusors from doing net-positive fusion (cathode losses)
• Ideating potential experiments to increase the rate of fusion in fusor

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February 2021

Main Focus: Purchasing parts

Progress: - Bought Edwards Diffstak 63MM Diffusion Pump - Bought Glassman HV PSU - Bought JB DV-142N Roughing Pump - Bought 40kV High Voltage Feedthrough - Bought majority of foreline vacuum parts - Bought conflat flanges for main chamber - Bought 200k Ohm Ballast Resistors - Bought Tungsten wire - Bought vacuum gauges - Spent countless hours on fusor net

To Purchase: - HV Stalk - Diffusion Pump’s Water Cooling System - Various NW10/16 flanges, O rings - Various HV Parts

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