Anyone see this story in the news a couple of weeks ago about a 12-year old who built a fusion reactor? This is a well-established DIY project. The design is a Farnsworth-Hirsch fusor, which uses high electric fields to force hydrogen atoms into fusing together. There is a whole community of fusion fans building reactors in basements and garages around the world.

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HELLO dear readers, this is PINKIE PIE, your Pony Friend Forever, Party Planner Extra-ordinaire, and fully qualified Nuclear Reactor Engineer. I'm writing this blog post as Pineta is away this week, which means I have a chance to tell you about sub-atomic physics and my favourite particle the neutron.

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This week's blog post ran to 1500 words, so I submitted it as new story instead.
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If you liked the rock cakes demo in Rock Farms and Nuclear Reactors, you might enjoy this.
I'm now off on a geophysics field trip.

As featured in Rock Farms and Nuclear Reactors and Rainbooms and Rationality

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It has been pointed out that Rock Farms and Nuclear Reactors was somewhat ridiculous. But Equestria runs on ridiculous ideas, so why not nuclear power?

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I have now uploaded the third and final chapter of Rock Farms and Nuclear Reactors, in which Twilight discusses the wisdom of using nuclear power with Zecora and Luna. There are ways in which I might continue this project, or maybe write a sequel, but this won't happen any time soon, so it is now officially complete. Thanks for reading. I'll write a longer blog post on this at some point over the weekend.

Thanks to everyone who has read and commented on chapter 2 of Rock Farms and Nuclear Reactors. It's really great to see just how many readers have gone along with my crazy idea of casting Pinkie Pie as a nuclear engineer.

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