UK media reported that a 13-year-old British boy built a nuclear fusion device and successfully conducted a nuclear fusion experiment, becoming the youngest person to achieve this feat. Meanwhile, a 12-year-old boy in Santa Clara, California, USA, used LEGO bricks to build a Braille printer.
According to the British "Daily Mail," last October, Jamie Edwards, a teenager from Lancashire, England, began building the device in his school laboratory and successfully conducted the nuclear fusion experiment on March 5th of this year. Edwards, who turns 14 this Sunday, broke the record previously held by American boy Taylor Wilson, who successfully conducted a nuclear fusion experiment at the age of 14.
The report stated that Edwards was inspired by the methods used by Taylor Wilson, utilizing 18,000 volts of high-voltage electricity to collide charged particles within a vacuum chamber, causing deuterium nuclei to fuse into helium nuclei at high temperatures. Edwards stated that the readings from the neutron counter confirmed the success of the experiment.
The experiment was witnessed by experts and recorded on video. The physics enthusiast website fusor.net will review and verify the experimental records. Edwards primarily obtained information for conducting the nuclear fusion experiment from this website, and the previous youngest nuclear reactor builder, Wilson, is a member of the website's "Neutron Club."
