12-year-old teenager conducted a nuclear fusion reaction in his home lab

Jackson Oswalt

At the forum of fans of nuclear physics Fusor.net, Jackson Oswalt from the city of Memphis, pc. Reported on his achievements. Tennessee. For his children's lab, the guy bought equipment for $ 10,000 and became the youngest physicist in the world who carried out a nuclear fusion reaction in his home laboratory.



At the forum, the guy writes that those who read his previous messages could hardly believe in success, but in recent months he has achieved really impressive results. A successful synthesis on a home installation was recorded in experiments on January 19, January 30, and January 31, 2018, at the time of the first of these, the boy was 12 years old.
')
















As the author writes, the synthesis was carried out at 40 microns of pure D2 (deuterium), while the installation was supplied with a voltage of 50,000 volts per 7 mA.

40 microns of pure D2
50kv @ 7ma
Trigger set to 30mv
2 5/8 inches of HDPE moderator

Jackson says that he ordered the necessary parts for the laboratory on eBay, although they often had to be refined.

However, for official recognition in the scientific community, he must himself or in collaboration with someone write a scientific article describing the equipment and results. If it is accepted for publication in the official scientific journal, then the achievement will be formally recorded.