A 13 year old boy breaks record with nuclear reactor

Name: A 13 year old boy breaks record with nuclear reactor
Uploaded: 2014-03-06T07:28:21.000Z
Duration: 1 min 16 s
Description: A 13-year-old boy from Preston becomes the youngest person ever to successfully carry out atomic fusion.

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A 13-year-old boy from Preston has become the youngest person ever to successfully carry out atomic fusion.

Jamie Edwards built a nuclear reactor before successfully smashing two hydrogen atoms together, making helium through nuclear fusion.

BBC News reporter Danny Savage went to meet him.

6 March 2014