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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So my name is Taylor Wilson.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.00,0:00:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am 17 years old
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.00,0:00:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I am a nuclear physicist,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.00,0:00:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which may be a little hard to believe, but I am.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.00,0:00:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I would like to make the case
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.00,0:00:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that nuclear fusion
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.00,0:00:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will be that point,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.00,0:00:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the bridge that T. Boone Pickens talked about
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.00,0:00:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will get us to.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.00,0:00:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So nuclear fusion is our energy future.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.00,0:00:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the second point,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.00,0:00:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making the case that kids can really change the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.00,0:00:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you may ask --
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.00,0:00:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.00,0:00:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You may ask me,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.00,0:00:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well how do you know what our energy future is?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.00,0:00:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well I built a fusion reactor
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.00,0:00:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I was 14 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.00,0:00:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the inside of my nuclear fusion reactor.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.00,0:00:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started building this project
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.00,0:00:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I was about 12 or 13 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.00,0:00:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I decided I wanted to make a star.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.00,0:00:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now most of you are probably saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.00,0:00:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well there's no such thing as nuclear fusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.00,0:00:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't see any nuclear power plants with fusion energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.00,0:01:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well it doesn't break even.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.00,0:01:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't produce more energy out than I put in,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.00,0:01:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it still does some pretty cool stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.00,0:01:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I assembled this in my garage,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.00,0:01:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it now lives in the physics department
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.00,0:01:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the University of Nevada, Reno.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.00,0:01:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it slams together deuterium,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.00,0:01:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is just hydrogen with an extra neutron in it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.00,0:01:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is similar to the reaction
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.00,0:01:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the proton chain that's going on inside the Sun.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.00,0:01:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm slamming it together so hard
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.00,0:01:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that that hydrogen fuses together,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.00,0:01:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the process it has some byproducts,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.00,0:01:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I utilize those byproducts.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.00,0:01:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this previous year,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.00,0:01:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I won the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.00,0:01:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I developed a detector that replaces the current detectors
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.00,0:01:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Homeland Security has.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.00,0:01:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For hundreds of dollars,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.00,0:01:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've developed a system that exceeds the sensitivity
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.00,0:01:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of detectors that are hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.00,0:01:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I built this in my garage.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.00,0:01:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.00,0:01:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've developed a system
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.00,0:01:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to produce medical isotopes.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.00,0:02:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead of requiring multi-million-dollar facilities
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.00,0:02:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've developed a device that, on a very small scale,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.00,0:02:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can produce these isotopes.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.00,0:02:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that's my fusion reactor in the background there.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.00,0:02:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is me at the control panel
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.00,0:02:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of my fusion reactor.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.00,0:02:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, by the way, I make yellowcake in my garage,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.00,0:02:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so my nuclear program is as advanced as the Iranians.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.00,0:02:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So maybe I don't want to admit to that.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.00,0:02:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is me at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.00,0:02:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is the preeminent particle physics laboratory in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.00,0:02:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is me with President Obama,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.00,0:02:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,showing him my Homeland Security research.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.00,0:02:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.00,0:02:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in about seven years
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.00,0:02:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of doing nuclear research,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.00,0:02:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started out with a dream
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.00,0:02:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make a "star in a jar," a star in my garage,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.00,0:02:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I ended up meeting the president
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.00,0:02:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and developing things that I think can change the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.00,0:02:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think other kids can too.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.00,0:02:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So thank you very much.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.00,0:03:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)