A middle-schooler has built a small working fusion reactor at his home.

Jackson Oswalt developed a small working fusion reactor in the playroom of his family home in Memphis.

Jackson Oswalt developed a small working fusion reactor in the playroom of his family home in Memphis.A middle school student Jackson Oswalt has become the youngest known person in the world to create a successful nuclear fusion reactor in the playroom of his home in Memphis, Tennessee. The Open Source Fusor Research Consortium, a hobbyist group, recognized Jackson's achievement when he was aged 12 in 2018. The teenager said that he transformed an old playroom into a nuclear laboratory with $10,000 (£7,700) worth of equipment that uses 50,000 volts of electricity to heat deuterium gas and fuse the nuclei to release energy.

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