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Teenage Nuclear Scientist: Taylor Wilson

  • November 2, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Teen scientist Taylor Wilson is the youngest person to build a nuclear fusion reactor — in 2008, at age 14, in his parents’ garage! Fusion releases energy when two or more atoms join to form a new atom, as when hydrogen fuses into helium, producing the energy of the stars.

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