Teenager constructs nuclear power plant in his parents’ garage
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How do you raise a genius? At age 11, Taylor Wilson told his parents that he wanted to build a nuclear reactor in the family garage. His parents never guessed he would do it, but three years later Taylor made history as the youngest person ever to build a fusion reactor. Since then he’s continued to amaze everyone around him with inventions like a cheaper way to make medical isotopes to treat cancer, and a better way to detect dirty bombs. Rock Center’s Harry Smith hikes in the mountains of Western Nevada with this boy wonder to learn what makes Taylor Wilson tick.
NPP notes:
Everything Taylor Wilson knows about nuclear science he taught himself – thanks to the internet.
Part of his collection includes a shelf cabinet of radioactive consumer items.
At 11 decides to build a fusion reactor in the garage.
A nuclear physicist at an Academy provides space in his laboratory. At 14 Taylor had done it.
“Taylor made history as the youngest person ever to build a fusion reactor.”
Really? Interesting, seeing as how fusion power is still theoretical. Hundreds of brilliant scientists at Lockheed Martin’s skunkworks would like to meet this Taylor Wilson.
In actuality, the clowns at NBC probably meant “fission power”. But what can you expect from the lamestream media nowadays. Their editors couldn’t give two craps about accuracy.
Yes, I wondered about this fussion/fission… I confess I never remember things like, which way round it is: AC/DC Tesla/Edison.
The kid is bright though and made me wonder about governments monitoring ‘terrorists’ creating bombs in the garage; authorities nurturing young talent.
I understand currently we break molecules/atoms up whereas Tesla talked about going with the flow; tapping into an existing energy flow.