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Middle Schooler Becomes Youngest Person to Achieve Nuclear Fusion
https://interestingengineering.com ^
| October 08, 2020
| By Derya Ozdemir
Posted on 10/09/2020 11:54:06 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
This boy fused two deuterium atoms together in a reactor he built in his family home!
This is what happens when kids are given the means and opportunities to follow their dreams: 12-year-old Jackson Oswalt achieved nuclear fusion using the reactor he had built in his house in Memphis, Tennessee, officially making him the world's youngest person to achieve nuclear fusion, per Guinness World Records!
Now, at 15 years old, he has become one of this year's Guinness World Records 2021 edition stars.
(Excerpt) Read more at interestingengineering.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deuterium; engineering; fusion; uhno
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To: RomanSoldier19
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posted on
10/09/2020 11:55:50 AM PDT
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z3n
To: RomanSoldier19
Science experiment. It’s a clock gone wrong. Put it in a briefcase
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posted on
10/09/2020 11:56:31 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
To: RomanSoldier19
Good thing he didn’t have a BB gun hanging on the wall behind him; his school would have suspended him.
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posted on
10/09/2020 11:56:41 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
To: RomanSoldier19
Great genes. Can we clone him?
To: RomanSoldier19
This was a news item about three years ago when he first built it...
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posted on
10/09/2020 12:00:58 PM PDT
by
Regulator
To: z3n
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posted on
10/09/2020 12:01:58 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: a fool in paradise
First thing I thought of, too. Hope PDJT invites him to the White House.
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posted on
10/09/2020 12:02:01 PM PDT
by
hanamizu
To: RomanSoldier19
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posted on
10/09/2020 12:03:08 PM PDT
by
Ken H
(Best SOTU ever!)
To: RomanSoldier19
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posted on
10/09/2020 12:03:29 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(TANSTAAFL!)
To: z3n
Mitch is no Lazlo Hollyfeld or Chris Knight...
Awesome movie. Two studying montages...two!
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posted on
10/09/2020 12:05:38 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: SmokingJoe
Lets wait to see if he’s cool with eugenics first.
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posted on
10/09/2020 12:07:01 PM PDT
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EEGator
To: RomanSoldier19
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posted on
10/09/2020 12:07:04 PM PDT
by
cschroe
(Veritas est lux)
To: z3n
This boy SAYS HE fused two deuterium atoms together in a reactor he built in his family home!
To: RomanSoldier19
I had a Gilbert ChemCraft set too, back in the 50s, but could get the last step completed...
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posted on
10/09/2020 12:09:09 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: RomanSoldier19
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posted on
10/09/2020 12:10:39 PM PDT
by
cschroe
(Veritas est lux)
To: carriage_hill
“could get the last step completed...”
Go for it. It’d be cool to have your own nuke.
To: a fool in paradise
He obviously had some adult with a lot of money backing him.
That equipment in the picture in not kids stuff.
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posted on
10/09/2020 12:12:34 PM PDT
by
Deo et patriae
(Make America Great again! rantings.)
To: RomanSoldier19
I would point out that it is a great help if your family has enough disposable income to afford those parts and custom machining necessary to build a
Farnsworth Fusor Such a project is very costly.
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posted on
10/09/2020 12:12:45 PM PDT
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Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: TexasGator
Ah, its all done with mirrors.
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