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A Lancashire schoolboy has become the youngest person in the world to perform nuclear fusion, according to the BBC.
Jamie Edwards, 13, from Penwortham Priory Academy, developed the project, with support from his school, in an under-utilised science laboratory. The school offered Edwards a £2,000 grant to buy a vacuum chamber, vacuum pump, tungsten wire, an aluminum rod, and valves, among other supplies.
Edwards, along with friend George Barker, managed to create nuclear fusion with an inertial electrostatic confinement, where the electric field is used to hold in a plasma, after following a guide in an open source website devoted to physics.
