A 13-year-old boy has become the youngest person in the world to achieve nuclear fusion from scratch by smashing two hydrogen atoms together to make helium.

Jamie Edwards, who attends Penwortham Priory Academy in Britain, has been fascinated with radiation for years. The obsession prompted him to spend his Christmas money on a Geiger counter a few years ago.

He's since gone on to develop his latest project, with his ambition to break the record set by 14-year-old Taylor Wilson, who had been named the youngest to produce a small fusion reactor in Nevada in 2008.

Jamie, who turns 14 this weekend needed to conduct the experiment this week in order to beat the previous record of the youngest ever 'fusioneer'.

For his next trick, Jamie plans to build a mini Hadron Collider, which would replicate the high energy particle accelerator on the Switzerland-France border used by scientists to smash together atoms.

