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12-Year-Old Becomes Youngest to Achieve Nuclear Fusion Using Home Lab

Written by Jeff Hopkins | 5/31/19 4:00 PM

The Open Source Fusor Research Consortium has confirmed that Jackson Oswalt of Memphis, TN has become the youngest person in history to achieve nuclear fusion. In what used to be the playroom in his parents’ house, Jackson used 50,000V of electricity to heat deuterium gas in a vacuum, fusing the atoms’ nuclei and creating a fusion reaction.

Read the full article on Silicon Republic