{"id":88021,"date":"2019-02-20T14:44:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T22:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/tennessee-teen-builds-working-nuclear-fusion-reactor-at-home"},"modified":"2019-02-20T14:44:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T22:44:32","slug":"tennessee-teen-builds-working-nuclear-fusion-reactor-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/tennessee-teen-builds-working-nuclear-fusion-reactor-at-home","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Teen Builds Working Nuclear Fusion Reactor at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tennessee-teen-builds-working-nuclear-fusion-reactor-at-home2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Tennessee teen has become the youngest person in America\u2014and possibly the world\u2014to build a working nuclear reactor and achieve fusion.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson Oswalt, now 14, set out on the ambitious project when he was just 12, <a href=\"https:\/\/eu.commercialappeal.com\/story\/news\/2019\/01\/28\/beifuss-file-memphis-youth-jackson-oswalt-builds-home-nuclear-fusion-reactor\/1977266002\/\">according to USA Today<\/a>, and achieved nuclear fusion in his Memphis home just hours before he turned 13 on Jan. 19, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA couple of years back, all I did was play video games,\u201d he told the news outlet. \u201cAnd I decided I didn\u2019t want to spend all my life doing video games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/tennessee-teen-builds-working-nuclear-fusion-reactor-at-home_2808209.html\">https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/tennessee-teen-builds-working-...08209.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tennessee teen has become the youngest person in America\u2014and possibly the world\u2014to build a working nuclear reactor and achieve fusion. Jackson Oswalt, now 14, set out on the ambitious project when he was just 12, according to USA Today, and achieved nuclear fusion in his Memphis home just hours before he turned 13 on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}