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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).
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, zovem se Tejlor Vilson.
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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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što je malo teško za poverovati,
ali jesam.
ali jesam.
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And I would like to make the case
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I želeo bih da istaknem
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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 ta tačka,
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that the bridge that T. Boone Pickens talked about
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do koje će nas taj most o kome je
T.Bun Pikens pričao
T.Bun Pikens pričao
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will get us to.
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dovesti.
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So nuclear fusion is our energy future.
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Dakle nuklearna fuzija je naša
energija budućnosti.
energija budućnosti.
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And the second point,
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I drugo,
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making the case that kids can really change the world.
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da deca zaista mogu
promeniti svet.
promeniti svet.
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So you may ask --
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Znači možete pitati -
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(Applause)
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(Aplauz)
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You may ask me,
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Možete me pitati,
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well how do you know what our energy future is?
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kako znaš sta će biti naša
energija budućnosti?
energija budućnosti?
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Well I built a fusion reactor
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Sagradio sam fuzijski reaktor
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when I was 14 years old.
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kad sam imao 14 godina.
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That is the inside of my nuclear fusion reactor.
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Ovo je unutrašnji deo mog
nuklearnog fuzijskog reaktora.
nuklearnog fuzijskog reaktora.
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I started building this project
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Ovaj projekat sam
počeo graditi
počeo graditi
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when I was about 12 or 13 years old.
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kad sam imao oko
12 ili 13 godina.
12 ili 13 godina.
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I decided I wanted to make a star.
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Odlučio sam da želim da
napravim zvezdu.
napravim zvezdu.
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Now most of you are probably saying,
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E sad, mnogi od vas
najverovatnije govore,
najverovatnije govore,
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well there's no such thing as nuclear fusion.
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nuklearna fuzija
ne postoji.
ne postoji.
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I don't see any nuclear power plants with fusion energy.
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Ne vidim ni jednu nuklearnu elektranu
sa energijom fuzije.
sa energijom fuzije.
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Well it doesn't break even.
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Pa nije baš isplativo.
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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
stavim u njega,
stavim u njega,
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but it still does some pretty cool stuff.
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ali i dalje izvodi neke
stvarno kul stvari.
stvarno kul stvari.
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And I assembled this in my garage,
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I sastavio sam ovo u
svojoj garaži,
svojoj garaži,
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and it now lives in the physics department
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i sad je na departmanu fizike
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of the University of Nevada, Reno.
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Univerziteta Nevada, Reno.
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And it slams together deuterium,
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On pravi sudare deuterijuma,
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which is just hydrogen with an extra neutron in it.
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koji je samo vodonik sa dodatnim
neutronom u njemu.
neutronom u njemu.
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So this is similar to the reaction
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Dakle ovo je slično reakciji
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of the proton chain that's going on inside the Sun.
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lanca protona koji se odigrava
unutar Sunca.
unutar Sunca.
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And I'm slamming it together so hard
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I ja ih toliko jako sudaram
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that that hydrogen fuses together,
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da se taj vodonik spaja,
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and in the process it has some byproducts,
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i u tom procesu ima neke
nus-proizvode,
nus-proizvode,
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and I utilize those byproducts.
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i ja te nus-proizvode iskoristim.
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So this previous year,
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Tako sam prethodne godine,
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I won the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
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pobedio na Intel Internacionalnom
sajmu nauke i inženjerstva.
sajmu nauke i inženjerstva.
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I developed a detector that replaces the current detectors
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Razvio sam detektor koji
menja postojeće detektore
menja postojeće detektore
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that Homeland Security has.
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koje Državna Bezbednost ima.
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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 prevazilazi
senzitivnost
senzitivnost
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of detectors that are hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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detektora koji su
stotine hiljada dolara.
stotine hiljada dolara.
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I built this in my garage.
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Sagradio sam ga u
svojoj garaži.
svojoj garaži.
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(Applause)
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(Aplauz)
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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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koji proizvodi medicinske
izotope.
izotope.
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Instead of requiring multi-million-dollar facilities
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Umesto traženja multimilionerskih
objekata
objekata
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I've developed a device that, on a very small scale,
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razvio sam napravu koja,
u veoma malom broju,
u veoma malom broju,
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can produce these isotopes.
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može da proizvede ove izotope.
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So that's my fusion reactor in the background there.
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Dakle ovo je moj fuzijski reaktor
tamo u pozadini.
tamo u pozadini.
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That is me at the control panel
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Ovo sam ja za
kontrolnim panelom
kontrolnim panelom
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of my fusion reactor.
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mog fuzijskog reaktora.
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Oh, by the way, I make yellowcake in my garage,
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O, uzgred, pravim "žuti kolač"
u svojoj garaži,
u svojoj garaži,
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so my nuclear program is as advanced as the Iranians.
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dakle moj nuklearni program je
napredan kao iranski.
napredan kao iranski.
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So maybe I don't want to admit to that.
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Pa možda ne želim
to da priznam.
to da priznam.
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This is me at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland,
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Ovo sam ja u CERN-u u Ženevi,
Švajcarska,
Švajcarska,
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which is the preeminent particle physics laboratory in the world.
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koji je najeminentnija laboratorija
atomske fizike u svetu.
atomske fizike u svetu.
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And this is me with President Obama,
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Ovo sam ja sa
predsednikom Obamom,
predsednikom Obamom,
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showing him my Homeland Security research.
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pokazujem mu svoje istraživanje
za Državnu Bezbednost.
za Državnu Bezbednost.
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(Applause)
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(Aplauz)
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So in about seven years
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Dakle za otprilike sedam godina
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of doing nuclear research,
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bavljenja nuklearnim istraživanjem,
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I started out with a dream
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krenuo sam sa snom
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to make a "star in a jar," a star in my garage,
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da napravim "čudo u tegli",
zvezdu u garaži,
zvezdu u garaži,
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and I ended up meeting the president
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a završio sam upoznajući
predsednika
predsednika
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and developing things that I think can change the world,
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i razvijajući stvari za koje mislim
da mogu promeniti svet
da mogu promeniti svet
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and I think other kids 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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(Applause)
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(Aplauz)
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