Say Hello to Wesley Crusher, Ladies and Gentlemen!!

[Irishman]

This just makes me feel old, and proud at the same time.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57619940-1/13-year-old-builds-working-nuclear-fusion-reactor/

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Of course, the muppets on BBC TV news announced that he had split the atom and created a fission reactor. It's most likely some sort of fusor. Anyway, pretty impressive for his agel.

 

[HIjol]

<HIjol frantically checking future lineage records for "Jamie Edwards">

"...Cochrane...Cochrane...Zephram...no...damn!!!..."

 

[Levi]

Very cool! Kids are getting smarter much younger these days! Excited to see the next few decades

 

[Into Darkness]

I created a nuclear reactor when I was 7, made it out of cereal boxes and toilet roll tubes and some felt tips. Worked perfectly.

 

[EmoBorg]

Maybe he should consider working in the North Korean or Iranian nuclear program.

 

[Irishman]

I created a nuclear reactor when I was 7, made it out of cereal boxes and toilet roll tubes and some felt tips. Worked perfectly.

3D print it or it didn't happen!

 

[Runetouch]

And he's British too! Awesome!

 

[rhubarbodendron]

I think that's a hoax. Fusion, whether hot or cold results in a hell of radiation. As you can't install lead walls several feet thick in a classroom, it's in my opinion unbelievable that such an event ever took place.

 

[Irishman]

I think that's a hoax. Fusion, whether hot or cold results in a hell of radiation. As you can't install lead walls several feet thick in a classroom, it's in my opinion unbelievable that such an event ever took place.

Apparently his youth is the big story. He beat out the previous record holder, who was 14.

 

[publiusr]

Apparently his youth is the big story. He beat out the previous record holder, who was 14.

That might be this guy:
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=17965
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-02/boy-who-played-fusion