Fusion reactor in basement?

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Of the various "infosec news" sources out there, I really think very highly of the 
Department of Homeland Security Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report.  
(Which I find surprisingly good, in view of light of some of the other gaffes.)

However, today I think the Mirror managed to catch them off guard:

November 24, Mirror (UK) — Boy used parts bought on eBay to build a nuclear 
reactor at his home. A teenager has created a working nuclear reactor in the 
basement of his family home. Thiago Olson, 17, bought spare parts on eBay and 
persuaded manufacturers to give him discounts to create the machine. It took 
1,000 hours over two years to build the fusion reactor, which creates energy by 
combining atoms. During the process, a 40,000-volt charge is supplied from a 
gutted mammogram scanner.  

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_headline=boy-who-built-a-nuc
lear-reactor-in-his-basement-%26method=full%26objectid=18150
199%26siteid=94762-name_page.html

A working nuclear reactor, built in two years of part time effort?  A *fusion* 
reactor?  40,000 v can be generated with pretty much any static generator, and 
the "gutted mammogram scanner" is a nice comic touch.  (The story goes on to 
say that he originally wanted to build a "hyperbolic" chamber, when the high 
pressure oxygen device is actually known as a hyperbaric chamber.)

Is November 24 some UK equivalent of April 1st?  Or has the Mirror been had by 
their own US correspondent?

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                                                   - Albert Einstein
Dictionary of Information Security  www.syngress.com/catalog/?pid=4150
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