Oh hai I'm 14 and made a working fusion reactor

[Pauly]

LINK

I want whatever his parents put on his Cheerios. Long read, but worth it.

Taylor set up a nuclear laboratory in the family garage. Occasionally he uses it to process uranium ore into yellowcake.

[Cabinet]

What an incredible read.
Good lord.
I may read this again later today.

[Don Vito]

[leandroab]

"Instead of creating those isotopes in multimillion-dollar cyclotrons and then rushing them to patients, what if he could build a fusion reactor small enough, cheap enough and safe enough to produce isotopes as needed, in every hospital in the world?"

I see a rich kid in the future.

But anyways, the chances of radioactive leaks and a possibility of nuclear accident is high, even though he's a genius... This kid must be stopped. If he wanna do this, get a professional lab and do it.

[Cabinet]

He did
Read the whole article, he creates a star.

[leandroab]

Originally Posted by Cabinet

He did

I stopped half-way through.. I'm lazy.

Originally Posted by Cabinet

He creates a star.

What did he name it? Billy?

[megano28]

How can you find anything you do significant after seeing kids like this?

[Sicarius]

Well, .....

[loktide]

yet another perfect example that today you just need a vision, motivation and persistence to get awesome shit done. not expensive lab equipment, nor expensive education.

i think the same applies to gear and musicianship.

[groph]

May the military never get a hold of this kid.

[Vinchester]

Thank god he has a supportive family and good friends.

Hope we'll be seeing world-changing inventions in his lifetime.

[SilenceIsACrime]

Oh good lord, this kid lives in my city. Really hope nothing ever goes horribly wrong....

[GATA4]

AMERICA!

[klutvott]

.... YEAH!

[Furtive Glance]

That's incredible.

[Alpenglow]

Holy shit. Amazing.

[HighGain510]

Epic article is epic. The things this kid has already accomplished are amazing, I hope he is able to achieve his vision of helping cancer patients in the future!

[Stealthtastic]

5$ says he's got a new job with the government at 14....

[Aevolve]

And he still wears Abercrombie.

[squid-boy]

I wonder if his parents are humble about his accomplishments? You know what I mean? How most parents think their kids are geniuses?

... maybe they think he's mediocre?

That would be a neat spin on reality.

[AngstRiddenDreams]

What exactly is a fusion reactor?

[Sicarius]

Originally Posted by SilenceIsACrime

Oh good lord, this kid lives in my city. Really hope nothing ever goes horribly wrong....

Godzilla is really a Horny Toad or a Gila Monster

[Miek]

Originally Posted by AngstRiddenDreams

What exactly is a fusion reactor?

Most nuclear reactors, as in, all of them, are nuclear fission reactors - they rely on the decay of radioactive materials (usually uranium) to generate power. There's a lot of different flavors of fission reactors, but most current ones are frankly behind the curve and it's very difficult to bring new ones online in a post chernobyl/3 mile island/fukushima world. I could talk about all three of those but it's not really the place for it.

Fusion reactors - well, you're already pretty familiar with fusion reactors, you see one every day.
The sun, yo.
Fusion reactors fuse particles together, and through a variety of means could generate power. That is, theoretically. No fusion reactor to date has broken even, they all require as much or more energy put into them to maintain the fusion reaction, and do not produce even the smallest iota of energy.
However, they would provide completely clean, safe, and vast amounts of energy once they pass the break-even point. No one really knows how far away that is at that point, it's been "fifty years" away since the 1950's.

[Murdstone]

One of the downsides of fusion however is the resultant temperatures of 600 million degrees.

Which is why finally figuring out cold fusion will lead us into the age of Futurama.

[Customisbetter]

I wish all students could find their passion like this kid. The world would be a far better place.