A boy built a nuclear reactor in his bedroom.
His bedroom became a functioning laboratory.
And no his name isn’t dexter.
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When I was 12 years old, I don’t think I
was doing much in the way of groundbreaking.
I was performing plays with my stuffed animals
for my parents and singing into my hairbrushes,
but I definitely had no idea what a nuclear
reactor was.
14 year old Jackson Oswalt from Memphis Tenessee
has just made history by becoming the yougerst
person to build a functioning nuclear fusion
reactor.
For those that don’t know, fusion power
is a power generation by using nuclear fusion
reactions to produce heat for electricity
generation.
2 atomic nuclear combine to from a heavier
nucleus and that releases energy.
So how did he do it?
Well, oswalt isn’t your average teen.
He’s been fascinated by nuclear energy for
a long time and would always research it.
See kids, while you’re all double tapping
on instagram posts, oswalt is changing the
world.
Take note.
And apparently, Jackson never sed a textbook.
He relied on trial and error and an online
forum of amateur physicists called Open Source
Fuson Research Consortium.
He told fox news.
The start of the process was just learning
about what other people had done with their
fusion reactors.
After that, he assembled a list of parts he
needed.
He found parts for the reactor on ebay when
he was only 12 years old.
Sometimes the parts that he found on ebay
weren’t exactly what he needed.
So he would modify them until they functioned.
After a year and a half of work, just a few
hours before he turned 13, On January 19th
2018, he finished his reactor.
The machine is made mostly of steel, vacuums,
pumps and chambers.
He said after a while, it became pretty simple
to realize how it all worked together.
His reactor smashes atoms together by force,
and this releases bursts of energy.
Jackson Oswalt turned his bedroom into a functioning
lab.
And he didn’t do this alone.
His parents supported his work and gave him
10 thousand dollars over the course of several
years for his project.
Jackson’s father chris said that he had
no real understanding on what his son was
working on, but he also said that he only
allowed Jackson to work on the project after
he made sure that Jackson was safe.
He asked experts to educate him about any
possible dangers and how to prevent them.
Jacksons reactor was verified by Richard hull,
a verifier with the research consortium and
andministrator for Fusor.net.
I mean, im just going to say what everyone
else is thinking…if it was this simple to
find all the parts to build a nuclear fusion
reactor for a 14 year old boy, imagine how
easy it could be for someone that wanted to
build one for the wrong reasons.
Maybe lets not think about it.
Anyways guys, congrats to Jackson for making
history, I’m going to wrap up this video
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