[chimera]

The resulting electric field created a beam of charged deuterium atoms that struck a nearby target, which was embedded with yet more deuterium. When some of the deuterium atoms in the beam collided with their counterparts in the target, they fused.

That's nothing more than a neutron generator that's been around for a long time. I was doing that as an undergraduate physics major in the early 1970s using a clunky old Crockroft-Walton linac. It makes a neat demo experiment for physics classes, but isn't anything new or exciting.

[AntiGuv]

I find anything that has to do with nuclear fusion exciting. :p

I know it's not a huge breakthrough, but it's something.

[IonImplantGuru]

That's nothing more than a neutron generator that's been around for a long time. I was doing that as an undergraduate physics major in the early 1970s using a clunky old Crockroft-Walton linac. It makes a neat demo experiment for physics classes, but isn't anything new or exciting.

You may have been producing neutrons, but you certainly were not generating them via a fusion process.

You were likely making unstable heavy isotopes by firing light elements into heavier ones; said unstable isotope then decays to lighter isotope of element x with the ejection of a neutron.

BTDT; Ion implantion was my game for 30 years.