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“I’d say [the] hardest part was trying to figure out how to make the seal airtight on the chamber, so I spent about probably half a year trying to get the seal correct.” (CREDIT: Creative Commons)
A adolescent genius at a U.S. middle school has created a working, miniature nuclear fusion reactor, which he entered into the Guinness World Records "only hours" before his 13th birthday.
"I've been able to utilise electricity
to speed two deuterium atoms together so that they fuse into an atom of
helium-3 and release a neutron, which can be used to heat water and operate a
steam engine, which produces energy," explains Jackson Oswalt of Memphis,
Tennessee, in the video below:
"I won't be doing full-on fusion, but
I'll be creating a plasma within this chamber," Oswalt says as he
introduces a demonstration. "I'd say [the] most difficult element was
figuring out how to make the chamber seal watertight, so I spent probably half
a year trying to get the seal right."
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