Canadian Man Achieves DIY Nuclear Fusion at Home with AI Assistance

Man Achieves Nuclear Fusion At Home In $3,000 With Help From AI

This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Wccftech.com has a disclosure and ethics policy. A man in Canada has achieved nuclear fusion at home for just $3,000 by using Amazon-backed Anthropic's Claude AI. He broadcast the feat on an X livestream, and used easily available materials such as a hydrocar and deuterium oxide, also known as heavy water. Claude allowed him to sift through documentation and debugging instructions for the project, with OpenAI's o1 pro lending a hand by clearing up confusion about electrical wiring and assembly. The aim of the project was to build a fusor capable of splitting atoms as well as producing plasma. According to the man who goes by Hudzah on his substack, the goal of his experiment was not to build a fusor capable of fusion but to detect neutrons. Hudzah shares that the toughest technical part of his journey was building a chamber capable of sustaining extremely low air pressure measurable only in single digit or low double digit millitorrs (mTorr). Consequently, the two most expensive components of his setup included equipment to generate 30 kilovolts (kV) of voltage and between 5 to 15 mTorrs of vacuum. Naturally, these components are also the most expensive, and Hudzah estimates that had he relied on easily available equipment, then his furor would cost around $15,000. However, publicly available guides allowed him to use a $120 two stage vacuum pump and $60 electrostatic capacitors on Aliexpress to build his equipment. The third bit in his fusor puzzle was to procure a form of Hydrogen gas called Deuterium. In his substack, Hudzah notes that while procuring the gas requires "specific credentials and are only sold in 500L+ quantities," he was able to devise a simple workaround. Instead of buying 500 liters of the gas, he bought a children's fuel cell car, extracted the proton exchange membrane (PEM) from it, and used it to convert readily available deuterium oxide (D2O or heavy water) into deuterium. After securing all the parts, Hudzah and a friend got to work. They spent the first six hours assembling the parts and ensuring the vacuum chamber could achieve a 3 mTorr pressure. The next six hours included another friend joining them, and the trio learning Chinese to achieve high voltages for D2 generation. They spent the next 12 hours finding a step-up transformer, debugging, working with a fried vacuum sensor and resting. The hard work led to nuclear fusion at home during the next three hours. Hudzah shares that since he didn't have lead sheets for protection, he "turned the system on, opened the needle valve for the deuterium to be let it and ran to my room to hide!" The entire setup cost $3,000, according to his comments on X. He warns that "neutrons and xrays emitted from this are cancer-causing and you use lead shielding to protect from it." He also adds that AI helped him with debugging and information processing. Hudzah shares that he speedran the assembly using Claude Projects as it allowed him to "extensively to debug, help me with safety, and follow otherwise unknown instructions that were outlined in the build process." OpenAI's o1 Pro also helped him with " very complicated assembly or electrical wiring stuff."

This man just achieved nuclear fusion on his kitchen bench thanks to AI, costs only $3000

A man has just achieved nuclear fusion at home on his kitchen bench, at a cost of just $3000 using Amazon-powered Anthropic's Claude AI. The Canadian man goes by Hudzah on his substack, hosting a livestream on X using materials easily available to people including hydrocar and deuterium oxide (otherwise known as heavy water). He used Claude to go through the documentation and debugging instructions for the fusion energy project, with OpenAI o1 pro helping by clearing out the confusion over electrical wiring and assembly. Hudzah wanted to build a nuclear fusor capable of splitting atoms, as well as producing plasma. His experiment wasn't to built a fusor capable of fusion, but to detect neutrons. He said that the hardest part of the project was building a chamber that was capable of sustaining extremely low air pressure, measurable in single-digit or low-digit millitorrs (mTorr). Hudzah explained: "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. Building a fusor to do fusion is an order of magnitude more lethal. The specs of this setup:". He continued: "I electrolyzed my own deuterium gas from heavy water using a hydrocar toy that had a PEM cell (mini electrolysis machine) and stored the gas in a syringe. this costed only $32 for the car + $80 for 50g of D2O to produce 56 litres of D2 gas!"