fusors

There's another downside to building fusors, says Mr. Hull: "Many people have a knee-jerk reaction that if you've got anything nuclear, you're a possible terrorist."

Nuclear Ambitions: Amateur Scientists 2008

They require special equipment to deliver that voltage, but because fusors run at a very low amperage, amateur devices can draw less power from the wall than a big plasma TV.

Nuclear Ambitions: Amateur Scientists 2008

But they won't be powering homes anytime soon -- for now, fusors use far more energy than they produce.

Nuclear Ambitions: Amateur Scientists 2008

Though fusors don't produce any significant amount of radioactive waste, fusioneers say there is a danger of electrocution.

Nuclear Ambitions: Amateur Scientists 2008

Called fusors and based on a 1960s design first developed by Philo T. Farnsworth, an inventor of television, the reactors are typically small steel spheres with wires and tubes sticking out and a glass window for looking inside.

Nuclear Ambitions: Amateur Scientists 2008

When the more weighty concerns of Church doctrine had been settled, the pro - fusors turned their attention to a curious letter that had been sent from Antwerp, then as preeminent in trade as Salamanca was in learning.

Mexico Michener, James 1992

That was why it had been trailed half a mile behind the ship: because fusors sometimes exploded.

World of Ptavvs Niven, Larry 1966

Scaling up from low-level fusors as the electrostatic confinement systems are doing at least has the virtue of being economical, fast to evauate, and (of necessity) free of bureaucratic meddling.

Cosmic Log 2009

They're already getting fusion reactions, Gaetano ... for example, in these home-brewed Farnsworth fusors that hobbyists are building (and in the Bussard Wiffleball devices).

Cosmic Log 2009

"One thing they did, till we got wise, was to maneuver our shadow into their fusors.

Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985