Teen Creates Fusion Reactor At Home

At age 17, most of us are out binge drinking and having copious amounts of sex, whilst the rest of us are earning our ASBO’s. So it might come as a shock to you to discover that a teenager from Michigan, USA, has spent his procreation time forming a fusion reactor in his parents cellar.

Thiago Olson, of Stoney Creek High School in Rochester Hills, MI, managed to create his nuclear fusion reactor by pumping 40,000 volts of electricity into a vacuum that had been filled with deuterium gas. The effect, he describes, is “a small intense ball of energy”.

www.fusor.net rates Thiago as the 18th top amateur in the world to create nuclear fusion.