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Math student builds fusion reactor at home with help from Claude AI and $2,000 | Plasma was achieved in just four weeks

Hudhayfa Nazoordeen, a math major at the University of Waterloo, created a mini fusor that resembles an actual tokamak and hooked it up to a humble 12kV...

In a nutshell: An unlikely contestant has emerged in the race toward cracking the fusion code, which has seen the biggest labs and richest billionaires pouring billions into various projects: a university student who assembled a reactor right in his bedroom in just four weeks. Hudhayfa Nazoordeen, a math major at the University of Waterloo, created a mini fusor that resembles an actual tokamak and hooked it up to a humble 12kV neon sign transformer for power. Nazoordeen's work builds on earlier exploits of Olivia Li, an engineer from the University of Toronto, who last year constructed her own fusion reactor in a New York City apartment using deuterium gas extracted from heavy water.

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