A boy genius at the age of 14 has built a nuclear reactor which is incredible, and science author Tom Clynes reports on the story after a series of questions and in person interview.  Here is an excerpt on what happened:

In his quest to better the world, Taylor Wilson  ended up with radioactive pants.

We went into an abandoned uranium mine in the Virginia Mountains in Nevada, just north of where Taylor now lives in Reno, to find uranium rock. On the way, he’s talking my ear off. He’s the total opposite of the science fair introvert sitting in the corner staring at his naval. He loves to evangelize about everything nuclear.

Eventually we will make yellow cake out of the ore we collect in Taylor’s garage. We have to pop this chain link fence to get into the mine. We have a pickaxe, shovel and flashlight and go down a few passageways where we find some veins of radioactive water running down the side of the mine. It literally glows. [Laughs]

Let’s find out more on what inspired him to make this reactor and watch him tell his story in the video on page 2

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