12 yr old Makes a Nuclear Fusion Reactor

[jedishrfu]

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A 12-year-old boy from Memphis, Tennessee, received a visit from the FBI after he achieved nuclear fusion in his room.

Jackson Oswalt constructed a nuclear fusion reactor in his family’s playroom, achieving fusion just days before his 13th birthday.

The boy genius had sourced the necessary parts from eBay and taught himself the physics to finish the project.

 

[256bits]

I wonder why this is making the rounds again in 2025.
One influencer re-wrote about it and all the other AI wanabe's picked it up and played follow the leader.
Not that it still isn't an interesting story to refresh upon.

So much for the research that goes into news making and fact checking these days
What do they call it - web-scrapping, web AI ...
Easy to do
https://www.newscatcherapi.com/blog/python-web-scraping-libraries-to-mine-news-data

From 2018,
The Open Source Fusor Research Consortium, a hobbyist group, has recognized the achievement by Jackson Oswalt, from Memphis, Tennessee, when he was aged 12 in January 2018.

https://www.livescience.com/64846-fusion-kid.html
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...have-created-nuclear-reaction-in-playroom-lab

 

[anuttarasammyak]

Is he safe from neutrons? I really hope so.

 

[256bits]

Is he safe from neutrons? I really hope so.

Is 50,000 v enough to fuse protons?

 

[jedishrfu]

I remember it now but the name didnt ring a bell. However, ive seen buzzfeed likes to post and repost news items every few months. Sometimes they acknowledge it.

 

[jedishrfu]

The more famous one was the college student who designed an atomic bomb from public materials.

When he showed it to his prof, Freeman Dyson who became alarmed. The paper got an A and was later destroyed.

The shocking thing about it was that he got help in the shaped charge designsurrounding the nuclear material by a Dupont customer agent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Aristotle_Phillips