Research

The amount of info that we are sifting through is almost too much to comprehend all at once. It's getting hard to know what to look for or to come up with an understanding of something so I think I'm just going to focus on looking at specific designs for fusors and how they each work individualy and then delve deeper into the processes it undergoes. This worked pretty well for me this week. I looked at one design and was surprised to learn about the radioactivity of it. Nothing severe just something that if we use our fusor alot it will change the structures of the metal and cause radioactivity. I'm not too worried about this. I talked it over with Jeff and discovered that it's really a low level and we are going to see exactly how much it takes before it becomes radioactive before we build it. I'm kind of looking forward to that part now.
-Devon

hello again

I know it has been a while since I visited, but I did actually learn a few things since the last time. I was amazed this week to learn about the critical mass. I can't imagine how hard it must have been to try and put all of this together without ever doing it before. If you are just a little over in the mass, you have just created a bomb. And no one wants that. If you are just a little under, then nothing will happen. I can't help but think that if nothing happened I would freak out thinking I did everything wrong, but I could have just been off on the mass a little.
Something else I learned was that there really is a difference between a fusor and a fusion reactor. Good to know!
Danielle