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Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here

Posted on August 22, 2008

Sometimes, you just have to do for yourself, so if you want nuclear power, you build a reactor. The Wall Street Journal's Sam Schnecter reports on a group of science fiction fans and amateur scientists who are working on home-based fusion reactors: Getting into their elite Neutron Club requires building a tabletop reactor that successfully fuses hydrogen isotopes and glows like a miniature star. Only 42 have qualified; some have T-shirts that read Fusion -- been there...done that. Like many such projects, it has its quixotic side, since fusion works well for, oh, the sun, but practi...

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