Taylor Wilson Knows Nuclear Fusion
The thought of a child playing with nuclear warfare seems terrifying but not for Taylor Wilson. The Arkansas native is the youngest person in the world to have built a working fusor. Fusors are devices designed to create nuclear fusion. Wilson built his first bomb at age 10 and his infamous fusor at age 14. In May 2011, he won the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his radiation detector. In February 2013 when he was just 17, he spoke at the TED conference about his ideas on self-contained underground nuclear fission reactors. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Energy have both offered federal funding to Wilson concerning his research.
