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17 year old Thiago Olson has created a nuclear fusion reactor in the basement of his parents home located in a Detroit suburb. The nuclear fusion reactor, which he calls “the Fusor,” took him more than two years and 1,000 hours of research to complete.

Thiagos nuclear reactor works by injecting deuterium gas (a form of hydrogen) into the vacuum chamber of the device. Then 40,000 volts of electricity are charged into the chamber from a piece of equipment taken from an old mammogram machine. As the machine runs, the atoms in the chamber are attracted to the center and then nuclear fusion is created.

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