Where there's a technology, there's a hobby sub-culture. Even for fusion reactors, according to the BBC. Nothing really dangerous about these fusor reactors (you can read up on them from the Wikipedia article), despite the slightly alarmist tone of the BBC article and the surprised neighbors. It seems unlikely they'll reach energy break-even anytime soon, but it never pays to completely write off amateurs, especially when they have brains, enthusiasm, and persistence.
If you're too impatient to build your own, you can simply order one up from NSD Fusion. Evidently they numerous medical and industrial uses as neutron sources. I hear that Acme Corporation will be coming out with their own version any day now too. That's the one I'm waiting for.
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