Having a go on your PlayStation, going to the cinema with your friends, playing outdoors — that's how the spare time of most 12-year-old children looks.That's not how it is for Jackson Oswalt though.

Two years ago, the now 14-year-old achieved something even some of the most renowned scientists have been unable to: he carried out nuclear fusion, in his parent's garage in Texarkana, Ark.

"One day I had a sudden epiphany," wrote the teen on amateur physicist forum, Fusor. "I realized that I could be the absolute best at whatever video game, but in the end it still wouldn't mean much. I realized that, in the grand scheme of things, video games had no role to play."

It was at this point that he decided to dedicate himself to science and to pursue a new hobby — nuclear fusion.

JACKSON OSWALT BUILT A NUCLEAR REACTOR IN HIS ROOM
While other children want a bicycle or a game console for their birthday or Christmas, Oswalt ordered the parts he needed for a nuclear reactor from eBay.

Instead of watching videos of gamers, Oswalt would watch physics videos — his parents agreed to give him financial support if he promised to first check through expert guidelines on a forum and to pay attention to their tips and advice.

They spent somewhere between $8,000 and $10,000 collecting the parts he needed to build his nuclear reactor, and also footed a bill for 50,000 volts and radioactive radiation.

Using Open Source Fusor Research Consortium— an online forum for amateur physicists — Oswalt relied on trial and error to ensure he was taking the appropriate measures to bul reactor and successfully carry out fusion reactions.

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