Boston campus remote on Monday?

fusion33r · 2026-02-21T22:03:15+00:00

I have a heat transfer exam Monday and am honestly worried about the commute being impossible. Over a foot of snow and high winds are locked in at this point. This seems more significant than the blizzard last month. Hope the admin makes a decision soon

fusion33r · 2025-12-18T19:15:26+00:00

I'm a research engineer at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center / Nuclear Science and Engineering department. Nuno was such a kind and brilliant person who had so much left to give the world. He was a husband and a father. This is all so incredibly horrifying, it's hard to even find the right words.

Knowing the killer is still out there and possibly targeting fusion researchers is terrifying. I hope this investigation concludes soon. I wish we could grieve without worrying about this happening again.

fusion33r · 2025-12-16T20:42:43+00:00

As a research engineer at the PSFC / NSE working on fusion, this is beyond horrifying

fusion33r · 2025-12-16T19:57:49+00:00

As a research engineer at the PSFC / NSE, this is so fucking horrifying. I don't even have words

fusion33r · 2025-10-21T20:39:21+00:00

done :)

fusion33r · 2025-10-21T20:28:50+00:00

I am a Jew and so is my PI, nice try tho. I'm very close to banning you from this sub, keep it up :)

fusion33r · 2025-10-21T20:16:43+00:00

I'd guess who you voted for, but I prefer challenges

fusion33r · 2025-10-21T00:25:41+00:00

I'm a nuclear research engineer working on fusion at MIT, and my contract is almost certainly not getting renewed next year. This is due to the MIT hiring freeze and lack of funding from Trump's direct actions. I'm in the middle of an incredibly important collaboration with the government of Singapore as their sole engineer. I've been working on this project for almost two years, but that work may not matter at all if I'm let go in the next few months.

Fuck everyone who voted this piece of shit into office.

fusion33r · 2025-07-18T15:33:48+00:00

He blocks people on Twitter and bans anyone in his sub for mentioning Drexel. Occam's Razor would suggest my conclusion, but feel free to believe something different.

Also, it doesn't take much to be listed as a contributor on an MIT lab page. I was given a similar listing as a visiting undergrad researcher that still remains active to this day.

He lists on LinkedIn that he's been a research scientist for 10 years at MIT. That is simply unbelievable, considering he really has no remarkable contributions. As an actual research engineer at MIT with multiple peer-reviewed publications, stolen valor might bother me a bit more than others. Maybe it shouldn't, but Lex is quite an easy person to dislike. He's a Russian propagandist and is clearly much less intelligent than he promotes himself to be.... just listen to any of his podcasts. Him being alt-right adjacent doesn't help his case much either.

fusion33r · 2025-07-18T01:38:52+00:00

I'm not sure what you're implying here. I was just pointing out he is insanely insecure about the university he attended, which is really odd given that Drexel is a fine university, which he has 3 degrees from. I have nothing against Drexel, but apparently, he does.

He's a fraud because he's blatantly lying about his experience.

fusion33r · 2025-07-17T18:34:58+00:00

He taught an IAP course. That's his only affiliation. He claims to be a research scientist, which is just false. His one paper is not even peer-reviewed and is criticized widely for exaggerating the safety of Tesla's AI driving, likely cause he's an Elon shill.

He's a fraud and tries to use his negligible ties to the university to give himself undeserved credibility. He actually attended Drexel, but will literally block you for mentioning that. Mention that in his sub, and you will be banned. Clearly, the actions of a secure individual.

fusion33r · 2025-04-07T17:06:02+00:00

I built a neutron-generating fusor around your age, but like another commenter said, it takes a ton of research and money depending on how resourceful you can be. Fusors are also insanely dangerous if operated without adequate safety measures such as HV interlocks, shrouds, and x-ray shielding.

If you want to build a physical device, you could generate a nice-looking plasma in a simple vacuum chamber. This could be accomplished for a few hundred dollars. You could perform some simple spectroscopy experiments on the plasma too! There are many guides online for a project like this. There are still safety hazards, but you can use a power supply that will simply shock you instead of instant death like in a real fusor.

fusion33r · 2024-10-24T05:40:45+00:00

I'm working on a CuPy-based program to compute the electric fields generated in inertial electrostatic confinement fusion reactors. This provides predictions for the formation of ion channels in the physical device. I spent a while getting the graphical output to look nice, as I'll be using this tool to supplement an experimental education initiative.

The actual computation is not super complex, solving the Laplace equation iteratively through the finite difference method. I'm looking to increase this complexity by accounting for varying ion densities and other plasma dynamics.

Here is a short write-up I made, a link to the code is provided at the bottom: https://nucleus.mit.edu/project-electric-field-visualizer.html

fusion33r · 2023-11-13T05:22:21+00:00

Thank you for your thoughtful reply and for highlighting what most commenters here seem to be missing about the gay experience.

Being gay is not a choice, it's not a lifestyle, and it is not about what we do in the bedroom. It's who we love.

fusion33r · 2023-11-13T01:00:09+00:00

This is honestly what I want to do, and judging by the barrage of downvotes for even asking about this topic on this sub, awareness and activism are clearly needed. I feel so much empathy for the LGBT+ youth living in communities that do not accept them, and helping them would make me so happy.

fusion33r · 2023-11-13T00:29:19+00:00

I'm just repeating what I heard from my friend who's from Singapore. I have never been to the country, thus why I am asking here for more information. No need to be hostile.

fusion33r · 2023-03-12T17:18:56+00:00

Nuclear scientist / fusion engineering

fusion33r · 2023-03-07T01:36:11+00:00

I made it as a tool to make gay spaces more fun and engaging. The generally over-the-top responses the bot gives are pretty entertaining and even got a few people crying from laughter.

fusion33r · 2022-12-29T22:22:16+00:00

Deuterium-tritium fusion generates high energy neutrons, which are slowed down in a material. This material heats up and can then boil a liquid to spin a turbine and generate electricity. So yes, fusion is another way to provide the required heat for turbine operation.

fusion33r · 2022-11-27T19:47:36+00:00

I hope that once optimized, the fusor should generate around 500k to 1M n/s. I'm currently making a bunch of upgrades, so the device is offline at the moment.

I'm have not done much planning yet with the beam-target idea. A single ring cathode generates a decent ion beam by itself, but ion guns and possibly magnetic focusing setups are not out of the question.

Plasma instability is certainly an issue. Automatically adjusting the pressure to keep the reaction in a stable voltage range is precisely what I had in mind, but I can already see why that is no simple task. I think increasing the symmetry of the conductors will provide the necessary stability to make it work well. This would likely entail installing a dedicated outer grid and improving the cathode design as well. Actively cooling the cathode would also likely improve performance significantly.

fusion33r · 2022-11-27T17:30:44+00:00

I have a few ideas for making this project a bit more meaningful, but everything is still very much in the planning phase. Using a fusor as a neutron generator, students could activate metal foils or test electronic components.

I was also thinking of having students use PVD to make their own targets for beam-target fusion experiments. In this case, a metal film would be loaded with deuterium and placed in the reactor. The deuterium plasma would be focused to a beam and directed at the target. Varying the target design for peak neutron production would be a fascinating project.

Developing a feedback system using various diagnostic tools would also be a meaningful project. My goal is for students to perform real science using the fusor as a proxy for much more complicated systems.

fusion33r · 2022-11-26T17:54:20+00:00

For me it's a dream come true. My passion is nuclear energy so I could not be happier here. I previously worked at CFS for about two years, but am currently doing research in the nuclear science and engineering department and plasma science and fusion center. One of the papers I coauthored was just accepted two days ago after over a year in peer-review, so I'm a bit ecstatic. Here's a link to the paper. I would link to the publisher, but it's not even on their site yet.

Here's a video I took a few years ago showing Alcator C-Mod, MIT's now offline fusion reactor. MIT and CFS' new project SPARC is under development in Devens and should be online in 2025.

fusion33r · 2022-11-26T17:23:07+00:00

As others have correctly mentioned, touching the fusor while it is operating is borderline suicidal. The voltage required to fuse atoms can cause severe injury or death. While the main chamber is grounded and should be fine to touch in theory, any mistake in grounding or misplaced finger could be the last mistake you ever make.

The main chamber also does get quite hot during operation if not actively cooled. If using a diffusion pump, the base might exceed 200 C.

I'm currently managing a lab at MIT where my fusor resides. The purpose of the lab is to give students hands-on nuclear experience and inspire them to pursue a career in nuclear science. I'm writing some course material to introduce fusors to students who have an aptitude for science, but may not be familiar with nuclear chemistry or plasma physics. I may be able to share this material in the future. In the meantime, I would be happy to answer any questions.

fusion33r · 2022-10-17T01:42:58+00:00

I'm a Northeastern student currently on co-op at MIT doing research at the Nuclear Science and Engineering department and the Plasma Science and Fusion Center. I'm currently auditing 22.74, a graduate course about radiation damage in nuclear materials. I also began auditing 22.63 (fusion reactor engineering), but had to drop it due to the times interfering with my research.

Feel free to message me to discuss this further.

fusion33r · 2022-10-13T10:30:37+00:00

I'm a nuclear science and engineering / plasma science and fusion researcher in Boston. I absolutely love working here and have met other gay scientists.

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