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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.
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. Full bio
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 name is Taylor Wilson.
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Dakle, moje ime je Taylor Wilson.
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I am 17 years old
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Imam 17 godina
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and I am a nuclear physicist,
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i nuklearni sam fizičar,
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which may be a little hard 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 case
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I htio bih vam pokazati
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that nuclear fusion
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da će nuklearna fuzija
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will be that point,
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biti ona točka,
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that the bridge that T. Boone Pickens talked 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 nuclear fusion is our energy future.
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Dakle, nuklearna fuzija naša je energetska budućnost.
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And the second point,
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Kao drugo,
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making the case that kids can really change the world.
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želim pokazati da djeca mogu stvarno promijeniti svijet.
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So you may ask --
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Mogli biste pitati -
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(Applause)
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(Pljesak)
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You may ask me,
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Mogli biste me pitati:
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well how do you know what our energy future is?
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Kako znaš što je naša energetska budućnost?
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Well I built a fusion reactor
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Pa, sagradio sam fuzijski reaktor
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when I was 14 years old.
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kada sam imao 14.
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That is the inside of my nuclear fusion reactor.
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To je unutrašnjost mog nuklearnog fuzijskog reaktora.
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I started building this project
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Počeo sam raditi na ovom projektu
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when I was about 12 or 13 years old.
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kada sam imao nekih 12 ili 13 godina.
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I decided I wanted to make a star.
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Odlučio sam da želim stvoriti zvijezdu.
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Now most of you are probably saying,
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Većina vas vjerojatno će reći
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well there's no such thing as nuclear fusion.
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da nuklearna fuzija ne postoji.
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I don't see any nuclear power plants with fusion energy.
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Ne vidim nijednu nuklearnu elektranu na fuzijsku energiju.
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Well it doesn't break even.
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Ne isplati se.
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It doesn't produce more energy 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 pretty cool stuff.
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ali ipak radi neke prilično zanimljive stvari.
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And I assembled this in my garage,
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I to sam sastavio u svojoj garaži,
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and it now lives in the physics department
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a sada boravi na odjelu fizike
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of the University of Nevada, Reno.
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Sveučilišta u Nevadi, u Renou.
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And it slams together deuterium,
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U njemu se sudara deuterij,
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which is just hydrogen with an extra neutron in it.
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što je samo vodik s jednim neutronom više.
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So this is similar to the reaction
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To je slično reakciji
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of the proton chain that's going on inside the Sun.
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niza protona koja se odvija unutar Sunca.
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And I'm slamming it together so hard
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A ja ih sudaram tako jako
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that that hydrogen fuses together,
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da se vodik sljepljuje skupa,
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and in the process it has some byproducts,
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i u tom procesu nastaju neki nusproizvodi,
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and I utilize those byproducts.
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a ja iskorištavam te nusproizvode.
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So this previous year,
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Dakle, prošle godine,
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I won the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
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pobijedio sam na Intelovom međunarodnom sajmu znanosti i inžinjerstva.
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I developed a detector that replaces the current detectors
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Razvio sam detektor koji je zamjena sadašnjim detektorima
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that Homeland Security has.
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koje Domovinska Sigurnost koristi.
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For hundreds of dollars,
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Za stotine dolara,
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I've developed a system that exceeds the sensitivity
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razvio sam sistem koji premašuje osjetljivost
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of detectors that are hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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detektora koji stoje stotine tisuća dolara.
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I built this in my garage.
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Sagradio sam ga u svojoj garaži.
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(Applause)
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(Pljesak)
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And I've developed a system
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I razvio sam sistem
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to produce medical isotopes.
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proizvodnje medicinskih izotopa.
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Instead of requiring multi-million-dollar facilities
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Umjesto postrojenja koji kostaju više milijuna dolara,
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I've developed a device that, on a very small scale,
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razvio sam uređaj koji, u vrlo malim razmjerima,
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can produce these isotopes.
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može proizvesti te izotope.
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So that's my fusion reactor in the background there.
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To je moj fuzijski reaktor u pozadini.
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That is me at the control panel
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To sam ja uz upravljačku ploču
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of my fusion reactor.
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svog fuzijskog reaktora.
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Oh, by the way, I make yellowcake in my garage,
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O, usput, proizvodim žuti kolač u svojoj garaži
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so my nuclear program is as advanced as the Iranians.
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pa je moj nuklearni program napredan koliko i iranski.
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So maybe I don't want to admit to that.
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Ali možda to ne želim priznati.
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This is me at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland,
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Ovo sam ja u CERN-u u Ženevi, u Švicarskoj,
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which is the preeminent particle physics laboratory in the world.
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što je najistaknutiji laboratorij fizike elementarnih čestica u svijetu.
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And this is me with President Obama,
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Ovo sam ja s predsjednikom Obamom,
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showing him my Homeland Security research.
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pokazujem mu svoje istraživanje Domovinske Sigurnosti.
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(Applause)
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(Pljesak)
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So in about seven years
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U sedam godina
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of doing nuclear research,
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kako se bavim nuklearnim istraživanjem,
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I started out with a dream
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započeo sam sa snom
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to make a "star in a jar," a star in my garage,
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da stvorim "zvijezdu u staklenci", zvijezdu u svojoj garaži,
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and I ended up meeting the president
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a uspio sam upoznati predsjednika
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and developing things that I think can change the world,
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i razviti stvari za koje smatram da mogu promijeniti svijet,
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and I think other kids 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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(Applause)
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(Pljesak)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Taylor Wilson - Nuclear scientistAt 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.
Taylor Wilson | Speaker | TED.com