Homemade fission reactor made in Brooklyn warehouse

Sounding more like the premise for some sort of geeky comic book or Sci Fi Television series: a New York Web developer by day, and a trailblazing nuclear engineer by night. A web designer for fashion house Gucci has surprised his neighbors by revealing he built a nuclear reactor in a Brooklyn warehouse. Mark Suppes, and a 32-year-old amateur physicist with a life long passion for sustainable energy, constructed the $40,000 homemade fission reactor all in his spare time.

He is now the 38th independent physicist in the word to have achieved nuclear fission from a self-built reactor and forms part of a growing community of “fusioneers.” These brainiacs are trying to discover how to produce energy by fusion, a process that currently consumes more energy to run than it creates.

Looking for a technologygy the he believed could actually work to solve all of our energy problems.Fusion energy is seen as the holy grail of green technology, since it produces no nuclear waste or greenhouse gases. While it did raise some concern from those close to his makeshift lab, these reactors are perfectly legal in the U.S. and pose no radioactive threat to anyone, as unlike nuclear fission reactions, they do not require uranium or plutonium fuel.

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