Taylor Wilson Biography
Taylor Wilson is an American nuclear physics enthusiast, entrepreneur, and science advocate. He produced nuclear fusion using a fusor at the age of 14 and at the time he was the youngest person ever to do so.
Taylor Wilson Age
He was born Taylor Ramon Wilson on May 7, 1994, in Texarkana, Arkansas, United States. He is 25 years old as of 2019.
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The 24-year-old scientist hasn’t disclosed any information regarding his personal life. He focuses more on his job.
Taylor Wilson Nuclear Reactor Company
The youngster should be heading to university after graduating from grade school. However, this has been put off as he wants to focus on a company created by him that will make Modular Fission Reactors. The teen is not put off by the competition, which is nations including China, along with having to meet along with overcoming any and all roadblocks. Wilson stated that he hopes to have a prototype in just two years, while he hopes to be able to bring a product to the market in less than five years.
“Not only does it combat climate change, but it can also bring power to the developing world. Imagine having a compact reactor in a rocket designed by those planning to habitat other planets. Not only would you have power for propulsion, but power once you get there.”
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Wilson and one of his “nuclear mentors,” Bill Brinsmead, in Wilson’s basement lab at the University of Nevada in Reno. In the foreground is the nuclear fusion reactor Wilson built at 14—making him the youngest person in the world to ever do so. He spent two years scrounging the parts and radioactive materials.
Taylor Wilson Net Worth
The passionate and young scientist is focused on his projects. He is on the verge to contribute his knowledge to the science community. However, he hasn’t yet focused his career to earn money. No information is available regarding his salary. Taylor’s net worth is around $1 million as of 2019, as he is one of the youngest scientists.
Taylor Wilson Personal life and education
He was born to Kenneth Wilson and Tiffany Wilson in 1994. His father is a third-generation Coca-Cola bottling plant owner and his mother a Yoga instructor. Prior to entering the field of nuclear science at the age of 10, he was initially interested in rocketry and space science. He attended both the Davidson Academy of Nevada and the University of Nevada, Reno where he was given a laboratory to conduct his fusion research.
Taylor was awarded a Thiel Fellowship in June 2012. He was named a member of the Helena Group in 2017, an “elite and edgy” think tank of global leaders focused on executing projects that improve the world.
Taylor Wilson Scientific projects | Fusion
Fusion reactor
He achieved nuclear fusion using an inertial electrostatic confinement(IEC) device in 2008. To conduct nuclear experiments he used the flux of neutrons from a deuterium-deuterium fusion reaction. He also studied novel fusion fuels inside the IEC device.
Taylor spoke at a TED conference regarding the building of his fusion reactor in March 2012. He has conducted fusion research using dense plasma focus devices along with the IEC reactors. He also constructed and developed nuclear diagnostics for basic fusion research.
Nuclear detection
He entered the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in San Jose, California, on May 2010. He won several awards for his project titled “Fission Vision: The Detection of Prompt and Delayed Induced Fission Gamma Radiation, and the Application to the Detection of Proliferated Nuclear Materials”.
Taylor entered his radiation detector in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles, California, against a field of 1,500 competitors and won a US$50,000 award in May 2011. His project, “Countering Nuclear Terrorism: Novel Active and Passive Techniques for Detecting Nuclear Threats”, won the First Place Award in the Physics and Astronomy Category, Best of Category Award, and the Intel Young Scientist Award.
He was offered federal funding by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Energy concerning his research. He has conducted in building inexpensive Cherenkov radiation detectors; Wilson has declined on an interim basis due to pending patent issues.
He invented a working detector that cost a few hundred dollars, unlike the traditional Cherenkov detectors usually cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Fission reactor
At TED 2013, on February 27, 2013, he presented his ideas on the benefits of building small underground nuclear fission reactors that are self-contained and use down-blended uranium and plutonium from decommissioned nuclear weapons as fuel.
He designed a variation of a compact molten salt reactor that he says would supply about 50 MW and would need refueling only once every 30 years.
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