Teen Built Nuclear Device in His Basement.
Thiago Olson, 17 year-old high school student, is called "the mad scientist" by his friends for good reason: he created a nuclear fusion reactor in his home.
In the basement of his parents' Oakland Township home, tucked away in an area most aren't privy to see, Thiago is exhausting his love of physics on a project that has taken him more than two years and 1,000 hours to research and build -- a large, intricate machine that , on a small scale, creates nuclear fusion.
