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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

Tejlor Vilson (Taylor Wilson): Da, sagradio sam reaktor za nuklearnu fuziju

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Tejlor Vilson veruje da je nuklearna fuzija rešenje za buduće energetske potrebe i da deca mogu promeniti svet. I on zna nešto malo o tome: kad je imao 14 godina, u garaži svojih roditelja sagradio je fuzisjki reaktor koji funkcioniše. Sada sa 17 godina, zauzima TED pozornicu na kratko da ispriča svoju priču (skraćenu verziju).
- 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 nameиме is TaylorTaylor WilsonWilson.
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Dakle, zovem se Tejlor Vilson.
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I am 17 yearsгодине oldстари
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Imam 17 godina
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and I am a nuclearнуклеарна physicistфизичар,
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i nuklearni sam fizičar,
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whichкоја mayможе be a little hardтешко to believe, but I am.
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što je malo teško za poverovati,
ali jesam.
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And I would like to make the caseслучај
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I želeo bih da istaknem
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that nuclearнуклеарна fusionфузија
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da će nuklearna fuzija
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will be that pointтачка,
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biti ta tačka,
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that the bridgeмост that T. BooneBoone PickensPikens talkedпричао about
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do koje će nas taj most o kome je
T.Bun Pikens pričao
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will get us to.
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dovesti.
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So nuclearнуклеарна fusionфузија is our energyенергија futureбудућност.
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Dakle nuklearna fuzija je naša
energija budućnosti.
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And the secondдруго pointтачка,
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I drugo,
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makingстварање the caseслучај that kidsклинци can really changeпромена the worldсвет.
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da deca zaista mogu
promeniti svet.
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So you mayможе askпитати --
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Znači možete pitati -
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(ApplauseAplauz)
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(Aplauz)
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You mayможе askпитати me,
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Možete me pitati,
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well how do you know what our energyенергија futureбудућност is?
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kako znaš sta će biti naša
energija budućnosti?
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Well I builtизграђен a fusionфузија reactorреактор
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Sagradio sam fuzijski reaktor
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when I was 14 yearsгодине oldстари.
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kad sam imao 14 godina.
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That is the insideу of my nuclearнуклеарна fusionфузија reactorреактор.
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Ovo je unutrašnji deo mog
nuklearnog fuzijskog reaktora.
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I startedпочела buildingзграде this projectпројекат
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Ovaj projekat sam
počeo graditi
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when I was about 12 or 13 yearsгодине oldстари.
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kad sam imao oko
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I decidedодлучио I wanted to make a starЗвезда.
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Odlučio sam da želim da
napravim zvezdu.
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Now mostнајвише of you are probablyвероватно sayingговорећи,
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E sad, mnogi od vas
najverovatnije govore,
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well there's no suchтаква thing as nuclearнуклеарна fusionфузија.
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nuklearna fuzija
ne postoji.
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I don't see any nuclearнуклеарна powerмоћ plantsбиљке with fusionфузија energyенергија.
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Ne vidim ni jednu nuklearnu elektranu
sa energijom fuzije.
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Well it doesn't breakпауза even.
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Pa nije baš isplativo.
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It doesn't produceпроизвести more energyенергија out than I put in,
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Ne proizvodi više energije nego što
stavim u njega,
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but it still does some prettyприлично coolхладан stuffствари.
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ali i dalje izvodi neke
stvarno kul stvari.
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And I assembledсастављен this in my garageгаража,
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I sastavio sam ovo u
svojoj garaži,
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and it now livesживи in the physicsфизика departmentодељење
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i sad je na departmanu fizike
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of the UniversityUniverzitet of NevadaU Nevadi, RenoReno.
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Univerziteta Nevada, Reno.
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And it slamsUh-Oh togetherзаједно deuteriumdeuterij,
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On pravi sudare deuterijuma,
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whichкоја is just hydrogenводоник with an extraекстра neutronNeutron in it.
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koji je samo vodonik sa dodatnim
neutronom u njemu.
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So this is similarслично to the reactionреакција
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Dakle ovo je slično reakciji
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of the protonпротон chainланац that's going on insideу the SunSunce.
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lanca protona koji se odigrava
unutar Sunca.
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And I'm slammingсламминг it togetherзаједно so hardтешко
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I ja ih toliko jako sudaram
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that that hydrogenводоник fusesosigurači togetherзаједно,
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da se taj vodonik spaja,
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and in the processпроцес it has some byproductsbyproducts,
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i u tom procesu ima neke
nus-proizvode,
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and I utilizeискористити those byproductsbyproducts.
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i ja te nus-proizvode iskoristim.
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So this previousПретходна yearгодине,
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Tako sam prethodne godine,
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I wonпобедио the IntelIntel InternationalMeđunarodni ScienceNauka and EngineeringInženjering FairFer.
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pobedio na Intel Internacionalnom
sajmu nauke i inženjerstva.
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I developedразвијен a detectordetektor that replaceszamenjuje the currentТренутни detectorsDetektori
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Razvio sam detektor koji
menja postojeće detektore
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that HomelandDomovina SecuritySigurnost has.
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koje Državna Bezbednost ima.
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For hundredsстотине of dollarsдолара,
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Za stotine dolara,
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I've developedразвијен a systemсистем that exceedspremašuje the sensitivityosetljivost
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razvio sam sistem koji prevazilazi
senzitivnost
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of detectorsDetektori that are hundredsстотине of thousandsхиљаде of dollarsдолара.
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detektora koji su
stotine hiljada dolara.
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I builtизграђен this in my garageгаража.
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Sagradio sam ga u
svojoj garaži.
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(Aplauz)
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And I've developedразвијен a systemсистем
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I razvio sam sistem
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to produceпроизвести medicalмедицински isotopesIzotopi.
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koji proizvodi medicinske
izotope.
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InsteadUmesto toga of requiringkoji zahteva multi-million-dollarmulti-dolara facilitiesобјеката
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Umesto traženja multimilionerskih
objekata
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I've developedразвијен a deviceуређај that, on a very smallмали scaleСкала,
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razvio sam napravu koja,
u veoma malom broju,
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can produceпроизвести these isotopesIzotopi.
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može da proizvede ove izotope.
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So that's my fusionфузија reactorреактор in the backgroundбацкгроунд there.
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Dakle ovo je moj fuzijski reaktor
tamo u pozadini.
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That is me at the controlконтрола panelпанел
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Ovo sam ja za
kontrolnim panelom
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of my fusionфузија reactorреактор.
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mog fuzijskog reaktora.
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Oh, by the way, I make yellowcaketiиe in my garageгаража,
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O, uzgred, pravim "žuti kolač"
u svojoj garaži,
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so my nuclearнуклеарна programпрограм is as advancedнапредни as the IraniansIranci.
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dakle moj nuklearni program je
napredan kao iranski.
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So maybe I don't want to admitпризнајем to that.
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Pa možda ne želim
to da priznam.
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This is me at CERNCERN-A in GenevaGeneva, SwitzerlandŠvajcarska,
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Ovo sam ja u CERN-u u Ženevi,
Švajcarska,
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whichкоја is the preeminentvrhunski particleчестица physicsфизика laboratoryлабораторија in the worldсвет.
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koji je najeminentnija laboratorija
atomske fizike u svetu.
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And this is me with PresidentPredsednik ObamaObama,
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Ovo sam ja sa
predsednikom Obamom,
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showingпоказивање him my HomelandDomovina SecuritySigurnost researchистраживање.
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pokazujem mu svoje istraživanje
za Državnu Bezbednost.
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So in about sevenседам yearsгодине
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Dakle za otprilike sedam godina
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of doing nuclearнуклеарна researchистраживање,
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bavljenja nuklearnim istraživanjem,
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I startedпочела out with a dreamсан
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krenuo sam sa snom
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to make a "starЗвезда in a jarјар," a starЗвезда in my garageгаража,
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da napravim "čudo u tegli",
zvezdu u garaži,
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and I endedзавршио up meetingсастанак the presidentпредседник
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a završio sam upoznajući
predsednika
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and developingразвој things that I think can changeпромена the worldсвет,
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i razvijajući stvari za koje mislim
da mogu promeniti svet
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and I think other kidsклинци can too.
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i mislim da to i druga deca mogu.
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So thank you very much.
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Hvala vam najlepše.
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Translated by Andrea Jovanovic
Reviewed by Bosko Erakovic

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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