The 18-year-old who built a nuclear reactor.

…And where passion is concerned, it seems Wilson has a nearly inexhaustible supply.

That and, as his father, Kenneth Wilson, points out: “He never takes no for an answer.”

Wilson started building the nuclear fusion reactor in his garaged but finished it at the University of Nevada, Reno. He did it initially because he was amazed by the power contained within the atom and obsessed with making things radioactive.