Yeah, so some highschool kid in Utah built a fusion reactor in his spare time out of like junkyard parts, and everyone’s all ga-ga over it. How come this kid isn’t getting charged with terrorism, like that guy who just had a fucking pipe bomb blow up in his lap?
- About 30 such devices exist around the country, owned by such entities as Los Alamos National Laboratories, NASA and universities. (”I bet I’m the only high school student that has one,” Craig Wallace said.)
Hehe. I say we teach this kid, and other would-be terrorists like him, and send him away to the deepest darkest hole that we can find.
- One professor Friday stood nervously away from Wallace’s reactor — which is notably free from any shielding — but he needn’t have worried: Wallace’s detector measures 36 neutrons per minute just in background radiation from space, and the device’s usual output adds only four neutrons per minute. People in airplanes absorb much more than that.
Yeah, I’ve heard that before that you absorb as much radiation on a flight as you do by getting a chest x-ray. Seems dangerous, right? Especially if you fly a lot? I’m gonna see if I can find any more info on that.
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