Memphis (US) : News Network
The web series ‘Young Sheldon’ on Netflix has fans all over the world. In this series, the talented 10-year-old Sheldon Cooper has a lot of love and faith in science. In this, Sheldon builds a nuclear reactor in his room and the FBI team comes to his door. Surprisingly, a similar true incident has happened in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
12-year-old Jackson Oswalt from Memphis, USA, built a nuclear fusion reactor in his bedroom. Jackson’s name has been recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest person to do this.
However, his feat woke up the security system in America and immediately the FBI took immediate action and rushed to Jackson’s house. The FBI team also verified whether the experiment conducted by Jackson was safe or not.
Jackson is very fond of scientific experiments. One day, he watched an episode of Taylor Wilson in Ted talk. In it, Taylor told how he achieved controlled nuclear fusion at the age of just 14. Jackson got a lot of inspiration from it and decided to do this experiment at the age of 11.
Initially, he studied the science of fusion reactors and built a demo fuser. For this, he took financial help from his parents. Jackson said in the post that the reactor that was initially built was not fully capable. Then I rebuilt the entire vacuum chamber. I bought a turbo molecular pump from eBay. I obtained deuterium fuel through some legal means and made a new inner grid from tantalum. After a year of tireless work, his reactor was operational and a few days before his 13th birthday, he successfully achieved fusion. He also obtained a measure of this using a neutron detector.
