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).

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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:".

• 30kV/10mA electrostatic precipitator
• 3 mTorr of pressure (253,333x more vacuum than atmospheric)
• bubble counter to count neutrons
• hydrocar to electrolyze my own deuterium

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!"

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"I primarily relied on a giant claude project filled with documentation from forums, call transcripts from @meetgranola, email threads and more. I use it extensively to debug, help me with safety, and follow otherwise unknown instructions that were outlined in the build process. I also used o1 pro for helping me with very complicated assembly or electrical wiring stuff. Found it much more useful for these cases".