thumb|upright=1.5|En hjemmelavet fusor. En fusor er et apparat, som anvender et elektrisk felt til at opvarme ioner til kernefusion betingelser. Maskinen inducerer en spænding mellem to metalbure, i et vakuum. Positive ioner falder gennem dette spændingsfald, hvilket øger ionhastigheden. Hvis ionerne kolliderer i centrum, kan de fusionere.
En Farnsworth-Hirsch fusor er den mest almindelige fusortype. Dette design kom fra arbejde udført af Philo T. Farnsworth i 1964 - og Robert L. Hirsch i 1967.Robert L. Hirsch, "Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement of Ionized Fusion Gases", Journal of Applied Physics, v. 38, no. 7, October 1967P. T. Farnsworth (private communication, 1964) En fusorvariant er tidligere blevet foreslået af William Elmore, James L. Tuck og Ken Watson ved Los Alamos National Laboratory"On the Inertial Electrostatic Confinement of a Plasma" William Elmore, James Tuck and Ken Watson, The Physics of Fluids, January 30, 1959 men de har aldrig bygget maskinen.
Fusorer er blevet bygget af forskellige institutioner. Disse inkluderer akademiske institutioner såsom University of Wisconsin–Madison,Ion Flow and Fusion Reactivity, Characterization of a Spherically convergent ion Focus. PhD Thesis, Dr. Timothy A Thorson, Wisconsin-Madison 1996., Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyImproving Particle Confinement in Inertial electrostatic Fusion for Spacecraft Power and Propulsion. Dr. Carl Dietrich, PhD Thesis, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007 og myndighedsorganer, såsom Atomic Energy Organization of Iran og Turkish Atomic Energy Authority."Preliminary Results of Experimental Studies from Low Pressure Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Device" Journal of Fusion Energy, May 23, 2013"Experimental Study of the Iranian Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion Device as a Continuous Neutron Generator" V. Damideh, A. Sadighzadeh, Koohi, Aslezaeem, Heidarnia, Abdollahi, Journal of Fusion Energy, June 11, 2011 Fusorer er også blevet udviklet kommercielt, som neutronkilder af DaimlerChrysler Aerospace og som en metode til at generere medicinske isotoper."Phoenix Nuclear Labs meets neutron production milestone", PNL press release May 1, 2013, Ross Radel, Evan Sengbuschhttp://shinemed.com/products/ , SHINE Medical Technologies, accessed 1-20-2014 Fusorer er og blevet meget populære for hobbyister og amatører. Et stigende antal amatører har udført kernefusion ved at anvende simple fusormaskiner.Hull, Richard. "The Fusor List." The Open Source Fusor Research Consortium II – Download Complete Thread. 58. http://fusor.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=13&f=7&sid=4d8521abbea0401b7c9ee0d4a6b09d6e#p512 , 24 Apr. 2013.http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/fusion-on-a-budget "Fusion on a Budget" IEEE Specturm March 2009 "THE HAYLETT NUCLEAR FUSION PROJECT" Accessed 9/15/2014http://www.cnet.com/news/13-year-old-builds-working-nuclear-fusion-reactor/ "13-year-old builds working nuclear fusion reactor" CNET news, March 2014
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