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The Boy Who Went Fission

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Taylor Wilson, now of Reno, Nevada, built an actual nuclear fusion reactor in his garage when he was 14. That was seven years ago. He also won $50,000 at a science festival for his invention that can find nuclear material in cargo containers. And he's not even close to running out of ideas. Like how to make cancer treatments more effective, and how to lower the price of energy with fission. “My life has been this series of events that I didn’t see coming," he says. "It’s both exciting and daunting to know you’re going to be constantly trying to one-up yourself. People can have their opinions about what I should do next, but my biggest pressure is internal": http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/20/taylor-wilson-nuclear-teen-genius-science-interview?CMP=ema_565#comment-54209719

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