A 14-year-old has created a nuclear fusion reactor in his room

The entrance of the room Jackson Oswalt has a sign with the word "Danger" but it's not just a sign to emphasize its independence, but inside there's really a nuclear fusion reactor, which The 14 year old man created a few years ago and finally works.

The teenager who a nuclear physics hobbie He experiments and builds a nuclear fusion reactor in a laboratory he has installed at his home in the city of Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

The young He began working on his project at the age of 12.s, finished his reactor and merged at the age of 13 years. He is therefore considered the youngest scientist in America and perhaps the world to have realized, according to information from Fox News.

The miner explains that the process inside the nuclear fusion reactor is comparable to the operation of the Sun and the stars.

The young man bought the equipment he needed on the Internet and he set up his laboratory in the playroom of his house. The young man acquired the material used on eBay.

With the financial support of his parents, Oswalt spent between $ 8,000 and $ 10,000 in the material.

The young recommended on the website of the open source research consortium Fusor, An online forum for amateur physicists, where he made sure that he was taking the right steps to successfully complete the merger.

On this site, Jackson was advised by Richard Hull, a retired electronics engineer of Richmond, Virginia.

"You have to jump through the appropriate hoops and show that you've done it so that we can believe you," he said. the engineer, 72 years of age, who also is a research consortium auditor and administrator of the site.

It's a relatively simple process that This can be done at home. In fact, there are other people with reactors at home and many new businesses that work with this technology started with a small workshop and in an amateur way, they explained to Science live.

These efforts almost always involve merging rather than fission (the division of atoms). Fission requires very heavy substances and tightly controlled, like uranium.

In addition, fusion typically involves ultra-light isotopes of hydrogen, such as deuteriumor, which are easier to acquire. When two light atoms fuse, the resulting "heavier atom" is a little lighter than the two that formed, which creates an additional mbad released in the form of energy. There is the chain reaction of Oswalt in his room.

But this feat do not badume that Oswalt or any amateurcan generate a bomb or a radioactive disaster. This type of device, although it emits radiation, generates a fusion on a very small scale to be considered dangerous, so it is not potentially harmful. Still, the forum insist on extreme precautions when using this type of "home appliances".

During his research, Jackson discovered that in 2018, Taylor Wilson, 14, had gained international recognition as aa younger person in carrying out the merger after building a nuclear fusion reactor on the parking lot of his home in Texarkana, Arkansas.

If the new results were verified, Jackson Oswalt would exceed Taylor Wilson.