Yup, I built a nuclear fusion reactor | Taylor Wilson

Translator: Jenny Zurawell

翻译人员: Yuguo Zhang 校对人员: Li Li

So my name is Taylor Wilson.

我叫泰勒 威尔逊，

I am 17 years old

今年17岁，

and I am a nuclear physicist,

我是一名核物理学家，

which may be a little hard to believe, but I am.

可能你们很难相信，但我确实是。

And I would like to make the case

我想说

that nuclear fusion

核聚变

will be that point,

就是那个

that the bridge that T. Boone Pickens talked about

布恩 皮肯斯（他的TED演讲里）谈到

will get us to.

能引领我们前进的桥。

So nuclear fusion is our energy future.

核聚变就是未来的能源。

And the second point,

第二点就是

making the case that kids can really change the world.

孩子能改变世界。

So you may ask --

你可能会问

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You may ask me,

你可能会问我，

well how do you know what our energy future is?

你怎么知道未来的能源是什么？

Well I built a fusion reactor

我14岁的时候造了一个核聚变反应堆，

when I was 14 years old.

我14岁的时候造了一个核聚变反应堆，

That is the inside of my nuclear fusion reactor.

这是里面的构造。

I started building this project

我开始这项工程时，

when I was about 12 or 13 years old.

那是我12，13岁的时候。

I decided I wanted to make a star.

我决定我要造个星星出来。

Now most of you are probably saying,

你们可能会说，

well there's no such thing as nuclear fusion.

现在没有实用的核聚变

I don't see any nuclear power plants with fusion energy.

我没看到过有核发电站采用核聚变。

Well it doesn't break even.

确实是这样。

It doesn't produce more energy out than I put in,

它并没有产生多于我放进去的能量，

but it still does some pretty cool stuff.

但是确实产生了一些有趣的事情。

And I assembled this in my garage,

我在我的车库里组装起来，

and it now lives in the physics department

现在它在内华达大学雷诺分校

of the University of Nevada, Reno.

的物理系。

And it slams together deuterium,

结合起来我们就得到了氘,

which is just hydrogen with an extra neutron in it.

氘其实就是氢和多余的一个中子在里面

So this is similar to the reaction

因此这个跟在太阳里面的质子链

of the proton chain that's going on inside the Sun.

那个反应很像

And I'm slamming it together so hard

而且我在很用力地把他们结合在一起

that that hydrogen fuses together,

当氢原子结合在一起的时候

and in the process it has some byproducts,

会有一些附属品产生

and I utilize those byproducts.

而我就利用了这些附属品

So this previous year,

因此上一年

I won the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.

我赢下了国际科学以及工程大会活动的第一名

I developed a detector that replaces the current detectors

我创造一个取代目前国家安全局

that Homeland Security has.

使用的探测器

For hundreds of dollars,

花了几千美金

I've developed a system that exceeds the sensitivity

我创建了一个比花了几十万美金还敏感的

of detectors that are hundreds of thousands of dollars.

的探测器

I built this in my garage.

我在我的车库建造出来的这个东西

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And I've developed a system

而且我创建了一个系统

to produce medical isotopes.

去生产医用的同位素

Instead of requiring multi-million-dollar facilities

与其要求上百万美金的设备

I've developed a device that, on a very small scale,

我自己在很小规模上创建一个

can produce these isotopes.

可以生产这些同位素的设备

So that's my fusion reactor in the background there.

你们现在在这个背景上看到就是我们核聚变发生器

That is me at the control panel

我在这个发生器的

of my fusion reactor.

控制板旁边

Oh, by the way, I make yellowcake in my garage,

对了,我在我的车库做黄色蛋糕呢

so my nuclear program is as advanced as the Iranians.

因此我们核系统跟伊朗人一样先进

So maybe I don't want to admit to that.

因此我不太想承认

This is me at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland,

这是我在CERN,是在瑞士的日内瓦

which is the preeminent particle physics laboratory in the world.

CERN是世界上最杰出的量子物理实验室

And this is me with President Obama,

这是我和总统奥巴马

showing him my Homeland Security research.

给他展现我的国土安全的研究

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So in about seven years

因此呢在这做核试验

of doing nuclear research,

的十年时间

I started out with a dream

我有了一个梦想

to make a "star in a jar," a star in my garage,

我想创建一个“在瓶子中的星星”,一个在我车库里的星星

and I ended up meeting the president

因此我最后和总统见面了

and developing things that I think can change the world,

然后创建一些可以改变世界的东西

and I think other kids can too.

而且我希望其他人也可以这样做

So thank you very much.

非常感谢

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