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Bed Stuy has a Nuclear Fusion Reactor — Brooklynian

Bed Stuy has a Nuclear Fusion Reactor

mantic
mantic
edited November -1 in Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bed-Stuy
By day, Mark Suppes is a web developer for fashion giant Gucci. By night, he cycles to a New York warehouse and tinkers with his own nuclear fusion reactor.

The warehouse is a non-descript building on a tree-lined Brooklyn street, across the road from blocks of apartments, with a grocery store on one corner. But in reality, it is a lab.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10385853.stm

Comments

  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    um, hope it has good security.
  • tonypags314
    tonypags314

    Subject: Sunshine Units

    This guy's neighbors are worried about nuclear experiments in their neighborhood. The BBC article that dropped yesterday glossed over the fact that fusion is way safer than fission, the reaction used by nuclear power plants in use today. Here are two facts I found on a wiki page.

    :D The products of a fusion reaction are not radioactive, thus there are no nuclear waste problems.

    8) Fusion is not a chain reaction, therefore it can be stopped at anytime and there is no threat of a meltdown.


    Sure the guy could probably burn a nice hole in something, but I really don't believe experiments would be on a large enough scale to do much damage.
  • bbc
    bbc
    That's my old roommate. It's totally safe, although I'm glad he moved the project out of our living room.
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