Building a nuclear reactor at home – from scratch (opens in new tab)

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34 pointscbaleanu12y ago4 comments

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strak12y ago· 2 in thread

It's an April fools joke, as described in the forum

Edit: see the second post: http://3.14.by/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1396

deutronium12y ago

These guys make a real Tritium betavoltaic battery http://www.citylabs.net/

I bet if you had enough tritium keychain fobs, you could power something via a solar panel though.

gexla12y ago

Not to mention the date on the article.

April 1, 2011

tesseract12y ago

Interesting that fusion is dismissed so quickly - the Farnsworth-Hirsch fusor is probably the most common DIY nuclear reactor. (It is of course a net energy sink.)

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