Thiago Olson, a 17-year-old, created his very own nuclear fusion reactor which he calls “the Fusor” in his parents' garage. Brilliant! A snippet from Detroit Free Press:He's on the cross country and track teams at Stoney Creek High School in Rochester Hills. He's a good-looking, clean-cut 17-year-old with a 3.75 grade point average, and he has his eyes fixed on the next big step: college. But to his friends, Thiago is known as "the mad scientist."
In the basement of his parents' Oakland Township home, tucked away in an area most aren't privy to see, Thiago is exhausting his love of physics on a project that has taken him more than two years and 1,000 hours to research and build -- a large, intricate machine that , on a small scale, creates nuclear fusion.
He first achieved fusion in September and has been perfecting the machine he built in his parents' garage ever since.
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