Skip to main content

Meet 16-year-old boy who is the first black student to build a nuclear fusor


A 16-year-old youngster from New Jersey is on his way to becoming the first black student ever to build a nuclear fusor.

The first part of this prototype is already built, and Steven Udotong raised the needed remaining $1,500 to finish the fusor in less than one month, through a GoFundMe page he created.

Once the whole fusor is finished, Steven will enter it in science fairs and competitions, which will help him achieve eventual scholarships.


This 16-year-old boy has a bright scientific future ahead of him.
Steven was one of the three students from New Jersey to be accepted into the Yale Young Global Scholar Program, which allowed him to pursue the engineering workshop at the Singapore campus last summer.

He is now a high school junior, and hopes his nuclear energy construction will ultimately inspire people, at a local and even national level, to adopt cleaner energy sources.

Steven is convinced minorities have opportunities in diverse fields, if they are up to challenges. “I’m proof that there are many ways for minorities to pursue success. Sports and music are not the only avenues for us… Rather, there’s a need for us to participate in academia, business, art, law, medicine, and yes, nuclear energy,” he said in an interview. His older brother Emmanuel is proof of this, being a computer science student at Princeton University.




Drawing of a nuclear fusor prototype.

The teenager hopes the nuclear fusor project will become an example of academic excellence, for other black students to look upon.


Steven comments he started to get curious about nuclear energy after at a chemistry class last year. “I decided to do more research and I soon learned that I could actually make a nuclear fusor. That sparked my interest. I want people to know that there are alternate methods for obtaining power and energy,” he said.

“Nuclear energy is a lot safer than people think,” Steven thinks, so he plans to continue with this quest in the years to come. He firmly believes there has to be “more serious action towards adopting alternative energy sources.”

Here is how a nuclear fusor looks like:


Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Check out the list of 6 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Shave Off Your Pubic Hair.(must read)

In case you don't know, Presence Of Pubic Hair Shows You’re Open For S’ex The presence of pubic hair has had a biological connotation since time immemorial. Pubic hair served as an easy way for partners to identify the $exual maturity of their spouses and their intention to have s’ex. Asides being a way of identifying s’exual maturity, in earlier times, men were thought to use the presence of pubic hair as a visual identifier of sorts to find their way around their target which is the vagina. Pubic Hair Has Been Linked With S’exual Pheromones Studies regarding the link between pubic hair and pheromones are inconclusive, but quite a number of facts have been ascribed to the theory that links pubic hair and pheromones. Pheromones are chemicals released by the apocrine glands and one theory that has continually revolved is that pubic hair helps to trap pheromones that attract potential mates. Pheromones are known to attach to pubic hair and have been thought to increase...
Post a Comment
Read more

How Valentine’s Day Begin And Who Was St. Valentine. Read The True Story...

How did Valentine’s Day begin and who was St. Valentine? The real story, facts and history behind February 14 Many of us associate the ‘most romantic day of the year’ with flowers and cards, but what’s the real reason we celebrate? It’s renowned for being the ‘most romantic day of the year’. And many of us use it as an opportunity to show affection for our loved ones with cards, flowers or chocolates. But why exactly do we celebrate Valentine’s Day and why does it fall on February 14? Well we’ve trawled through the history books to find out the real reasons so you don’t have to – and the background casts a very different light on the holiday. How did Valentine’s Day begin? Valentine’s Day is an old tradition thought to have originated from a Roman Festival known as Lupercalia, according to History.com. It was held on February 15 as a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture. During the celebrations boys would draw names of girls from...
Post a Comment
Read more

Proven Ways to Drive More Traffic to Your Facebook Page

With over 1.44 billion monthly active users and over 900 million daily active users, it is fair to say that Facebook is the supreme social network in terms of user base. Facebook’s ever growing popularity and significance make it a crucial social network for your business to get on and optimize effectively.  Facebook has made rules over the years that now make it more difficult for business pages to get their content in front of their audiences, but once you get a massive audience to see your Facebook content, they’ll come back to your Facebook Page numerous times. Remember that most of the 900 million people who log into Facebook every day also spend over an hour on the social media behemoth per day. Facebook is still important, and it’s importance grows as the days go by. If you don’t optimize Facebook for your business, then now is the time to start. If you already have a Facebook Page or want to get one, that Facebook Page needs more traffic. Here are eight ways to drive t...
Post a Comment
Read more