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Since there isn’t exactly a manual on how to build something like that he relied on trial and error and the Open Source Fusor Research Consortium, an online forum for amateur physicists, to ensure that he was taking the proper steps toward successfully building a fusion reactor and hopefully achieving fusion.

Throughout the process, Jackson posted his results to the Open Source Fusor Research Consortium up until the point when he was able to achieve fusion on Jan. 19, 2018 --hours before his 13th birthday.

The eerie light inside the reaction chamber of Taylor’s fusor is created by the glow of negatively a negatively charged tungsten grid.

It would involve tens of thousands of electron volts and deadly x-rays: using a fusor was considered too technically challenging even for most doctoral candidates.

At age 14 he became the youngest ever to construct a working “fusor” or nuclear fusion reactor.