Smash Atoms at Home for Fun & Profit

[beamjockey]

There seems to be some local resistance to the scheme of a guy who wants to install a cyclotron in his house in Alaska.

Comments

[von_krag]

Geez, ya'd think he was messing round with dangrious stuff, like a Meth lab or moonshine still. NIMBY spoilsports.

[von_krag]

Humph! Flibbertigibbet stuff, I wanna do neutron imbritlement rates on C60 tubes that are the key to my giant robot/mvp. And maybe confuse Bill by shooting my neutrons at his target up near Duluth

Valiantly trying not to gloat....

[tandw]

Currently crunching data from bouncing neutrons and x-rays off of shiny things. Neutrons courtesy of IPNS, and x-rays from the Advanced Photon Source. You want photons? We got photons! X-ray pix of steel fuel injector nozzles with submicron resolution! Europium K-edge XANES in less than half an hour! God, I love this job....

(BTW, see you & whumpdotcom at WisCon?)

[del_c]

"Why worry? Each one of us is carrying an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back."
"Yep. Let's get ready. Switch me on."

[phuphuphnik]

I talked to this guy on the phone last night. He needs support to do this. I think that he has good intentions.

[asfi]

A friend e-mailed me a link to this article. For some strage reason it made me think of you: WWBD?