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Taylor Wilson - Nuclear scientist
At 14, Taylor Wilson became the youngest person to achieve fusion -- with a reactor born in his garage. Now he wants to save our seaports from nuclear terror.

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Physics wunderkind Taylor Wilson astounded the science world when, at age 14, he became the youngest person in history to produce fusion. The University of Nevada-Reno offered a home for his early experiments when Wilson’s worried parents realized he had every intention of building his reactor in the garage.

Wilson now intends to fight nuclear terror in the nation's ports, with a homemade radiation detector priced an order of magnitude lower than most current devices. In 2012, Wilson's dreams received a boost when he became a recipient of the $100,000 Thiel Prize. Wilson now intends revolutionize the way we produce energy, fight cancer, and combat terrorism using nuclear technology.

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Taylor Wilson: Yup, I built a nuclear fusion reactor

Taylor Wilson: Aha, sagradio sam nuklearni fuzijski reaktor

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Taylor Wilson vjeruje da je nuklearna fuzija rješenje za naše buduće energetske potrebe te da djeca mogu promijeniti svijet. I zna ponešto o oboje: kada je imao 14 godina, sagradio je funkcionalni fuzijski reaktor u garaži svojih roditelja. Sada 17-ogodišnjak, on dolazi na TED-ovu pozornicu da bi ispričao (u kratkoj verziji) svoju priču.
- Nuclear scientist
At 14, Taylor Wilson became the youngest person to achieve fusion -- with a reactor born in his garage. Now he wants to save our seaports from nuclear terror. Full bio

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So my nameime is TaylorTaylor WilsonWilson.
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Dakle, moje ime je Taylor Wilson.
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I am 17 yearsgodina oldstar
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Imam 17 godina
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and I am a nuclearnuklearni physicistfizičar,
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i nuklearni sam fizičar,
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whichkoji maysvibanj be a little hardteško to believe, but I am.
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u što vam je možda teško povjerovati, ali jesam.
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And I would like to make the casespis
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I htio bih vam pokazati
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that nuclearnuklearni fusionfuzija
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da će nuklearna fuzija
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will be that pointtočka,
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biti ona točka,
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that the bridgemost that T. BooneBoone PickensPickens talkedRazgovarao about
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do koje će nas most o kojem je
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will get us to.
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T. Boone Pickens govorio dovesti.
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So nuclearnuklearni fusionfuzija is our energyenergija futurebudućnost.
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Dakle, nuklearna fuzija naša je energetska budućnost.
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And the seconddrugi pointtočka,
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Kao drugo,
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makingizrađivanje the casespis that kidsdjeca can really changepromijeniti the worldsvijet.
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želim pokazati da djeca mogu stvarno promijeniti svijet.
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So you maysvibanj askpitati --
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Mogli biste pitati -
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(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)
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You maysvibanj askpitati me,
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Mogli biste me pitati:
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well how do you know what our energyenergija futurebudućnost is?
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Kako znaš što je naša energetska budućnost?
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Well I builtizgrađen a fusionfuzija reactorreaktor
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Pa, sagradio sam fuzijski reaktor
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when I was 14 yearsgodina oldstar.
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kada sam imao 14.
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That is the insideiznutra of my nuclearnuklearni fusionfuzija reactorreaktor.
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To je unutrašnjost mog nuklearnog fuzijskog reaktora.
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I startedpočeo buildingzgrada this projectprojekt
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Počeo sam raditi na ovom projektu
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when I was about 12 or 13 yearsgodina oldstar.
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kada sam imao nekih 12 ili 13 godina.
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I decidedodlučio I wanted to make a starzvijezda.
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Odlučio sam da želim stvoriti zvijezdu.
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Now mostnajviše of you are probablyvjerojatno sayingizreka,
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Većina vas vjerojatno će reći
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well there's no suchtakav thing as nuclearnuklearni fusionfuzija.
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da nuklearna fuzija ne postoji.
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I don't see any nuclearnuklearni powervlast plantsbilje with fusionfuzija energyenergija.
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Ne vidim nijednu nuklearnu elektranu na fuzijsku energiju.
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Well it doesn't breakpauza even.
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Ne isplati se.
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It doesn't produceproizvoditi more energyenergija out than I put in,
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Ne proizvodi više energije nego što je uloženo,
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but it still does some prettyprilično coolsvjež stuffstvari.
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ali ipak radi neke prilično zanimljive stvari.
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And I assembledsklopljen this in my garagegaraža,
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I to sam sastavio u svojoj garaži,
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and it now livesživot in the physicsfizika departmentodjel
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a sada boravi na odjelu fizike
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of the UniversitySveučilište of NevadaNevada, RenoReno.
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Sveučilišta u Nevadi, u Renou.
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And it slamsslama togetherzajedno deuteriumdeuterija,
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U njemu se sudara deuterij,
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whichkoji is just hydrogenvodik with an extraekstra neutronneutrona in it.
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što je samo vodik s jednim neutronom više.
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So this is similarsličan to the reactionreakcija
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To je slično reakciji
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of the protonproton chainlanac that's going on insideiznutra the SunSunce.
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niza protona koja se odvija unutar Sunca.
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And I'm slammingudaranje it togetherzajedno so hardteško
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A ja ih sudaram tako jako
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that that hydrogenvodik fusesosigurači togetherzajedno,
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da se vodik sljepljuje skupa,
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and in the processpostupak it has some byproductsnusproizvodi,
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i u tom procesu nastaju neki nusproizvodi,
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and I utilizeiskoristiti those byproductsnusproizvodi.
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a ja iskorištavam te nusproizvode.
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So this previousprijašnji yeargodina,
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Dakle, prošle godine,
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I wonwon the IntelIntel InternationalMeđunarodni ScienceZnanost and EngineeringInženjerstvo FairSajam.
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pobijedio sam na Intelovom međunarodnom sajmu znanosti i inžinjerstva.
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I developedrazvijen a detectordetektor that replaceszamjenjuje the currentstruja detectorsdetektori
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Razvio sam detektor koji je zamjena sadašnjim detektorima
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that HomelandDomovina SecuritySigurnost has.
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koje Domovinska Sigurnost koristi.
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For hundredsstotine of dollarsdolara,
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Za stotine dolara,
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I've developedrazvijen a systemsistem that exceedspremašuje the sensitivityosjetljivost
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razvio sam sistem koji premašuje osjetljivost
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of detectorsdetektori that are hundredsstotine of thousandstisuća of dollarsdolara.
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detektora koji stoje stotine tisuća dolara.
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I builtizgrađen this in my garagegaraža.
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Sagradio sam ga u svojoj garaži.
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(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)
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And I've developedrazvijen a systemsistem
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I razvio sam sistem
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to produceproizvoditi medicalmedicinski isotopesizotopi.
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proizvodnje medicinskih izotopa.
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InsteadUmjesto toga of requiringkoje zahtijevaju multi-million-dollarviše-milijun-dolar facilitiespostrojenja
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Umjesto postrojenja koji kostaju više milijuna dolara,
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I've developedrazvijen a deviceuređaj that, on a very smallmali scaleljestvica,
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razvio sam uređaj koji, u vrlo malim razmjerima,
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can produceproizvoditi these isotopesizotopi.
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može proizvesti te izotope.
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So that's my fusionfuzija reactorreaktor in the backgroundpozadina there.
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To je moj fuzijski reaktor u pozadini.
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That is me at the controlkontrolirati panelploča
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To sam ja uz upravljačku ploču
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of my fusionfuzija reactorreaktor.
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svog fuzijskog reaktora.
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Oh, by the way, I make yellowcakeYellowcake in my garagegaraža,
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O, usput, proizvodim žuti kolač u svojoj garaži
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so my nuclearnuklearni programprogram is as advancednapredan as the IraniansIranci.
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pa je moj nuklearni program napredan koliko i iranski.
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So maybe I don't want to admitpriznati to that.
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Ali možda to ne želim priznati.
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This is me at CERNCERN-A in GenevaGeneva, SwitzerlandŠvicarska,
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Ovo sam ja u CERN-u u Ženevi, u Švicarskoj,
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whichkoji is the preeminentnadmoćan particlečestica physicsfizika laboratorylaboratorija in the worldsvijet.
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što je najistaknutiji laboratorij fizike elementarnih čestica u svijetu.
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And this is me with PresidentPredsjednik ObamaObama,
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Ovo sam ja s predsjednikom Obamom,
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showingpokazivanje him my HomelandDomovina SecuritySigurnost researchistraživanje.
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pokazujem mu svoje istraživanje Domovinske Sigurnosti.
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(ApplausePljesak)
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So in about sevensedam yearsgodina
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U sedam godina
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of doing nuclearnuklearni researchistraživanje,
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kako se bavim nuklearnim istraživanjem,
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I startedpočeo out with a dreamsan
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započeo sam sa snom
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to make a "starzvijezda in a jarstaklenka," a starzvijezda in my garagegaraža,
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da stvorim "zvijezdu u staklenci", zvijezdu u svojoj garaži,
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and I endedzavršeno up meetingsastanak the presidentpredsjednik
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a uspio sam upoznati predsjednika
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and developingrazvoju things that I think can changepromijeniti the worldsvijet,
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i razviti stvari za koje smatram da mogu promijeniti svijet,
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and I think other kidsdjeca can too.
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što mislim da mogu i druga djeca.
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So thank you very much.
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Puno vam hvala.
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Translated by Suzana Barić
Reviewed by Mladen Jankovic

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Taylor Wilson - Nuclear scientist
At 14, Taylor Wilson became the youngest person to achieve fusion -- with a reactor born in his garage. Now he wants to save our seaports from nuclear terror.

Why you should listen

Physics wunderkind Taylor Wilson astounded the science world when, at age 14, he became the youngest person in history to produce fusion. The University of Nevada-Reno offered a home for his early experiments when Wilson’s worried parents realized he had every intention of building his reactor in the garage.

Wilson now intends to fight nuclear terror in the nation's ports, with a homemade radiation detector priced an order of magnitude lower than most current devices. In 2012, Wilson's dreams received a boost when he became a recipient of the $100,000 Thiel Prize. Wilson now intends revolutionize the way we produce energy, fight cancer, and combat terrorism using nuclear technology.

More profile about the speaker
Taylor Wilson | Speaker | TED.com