Photo credit: HudZah
If you thought the nuclear-powered Sky Hotel was crazy, check out HudZah’s claim to have achieved nuclear fusion at home, thanks to Anthropic’s Claude AI. This isn’t just a claim either, as he performed the experiment on an X livestream, using readily available materials like hydrocar and deuterium oxide.
a few months ago I built a demo fusor that produced plasma—this was nowhere near capable to *actually* do fusion.
I spent the last many weeks gathering parts on ebay, battling Canada post strikes and then speedrunning the assembly using Claude Projects in less than 2 days. pic.twitter.com/TtolOnC6PX
— HudZah ⁂ (@hud_zah) January 17, 2025
His original goal was to just make a fusor to detect neutrons, which is essentially a device that uses an electric field to heat ions to a temperature at which they undergo nuclear fusion. The toughest technical part of this project was building a chamber capable of sustaining extremely low air pressure measurable only in single digit or low double digit millitorrs (mTorr). HudZah and a friend spent the first six hours assembling the parts and ensuring the vacuum chamber could achieve a 3 mTorr pressure. What they ended up with was a creation that requires lead shielding to protect from the x-rays it emits.
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Building a fusor to do fusion is an order of magnitude more lethal. The specs of this setup: 30kV/10mA electrostatic precipitator; 3 mTorr of pressure (253,333x more vacuum than atmospheric); bubble counter to count neutrons; hydrocar to electrolyze my own deuterium,” said HudZah.
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