David Hahn

David Hahn , born in October 1976, tried to build a breeder nuclear power in 1994, at 17 years, in the hangar of its garden in the suburbs of Détroit.

Called " the scout radioactif" , it was a Aigle Scout (more the high ranking of the Scout S with the the United States) which had previously gained a badge of merit in atomic energy and had spent the years to arrange chemistry in basement (causing small explosions besides). It piled up radioactive materials (from time to time stolen), in civil commercial products, such as the Américium of the smoke detectors, the thorium of the coats lanterns to gas, and the radium of phosphorescent paintings of (old) the clocks. He even spent 1000$ of batteries to extract the Lithium from it to purify thorium ashes with a Bunsen burner.

Its " réacteur" was a large steel crucible.

Although its engine makes house was very far from the critical mass, it ended up emitting levels of dangerous radioactivity (around 1000 times the normal basic radiation).
Alarmé, Hahn started to dismantle its experiments, but a fortuitous meeting with the police force leads to discovered its activities, which started a federal radiological urgency making take part FBI and the Commission of nuclear standardization. the agency of environmental protection, having indicated the property of the mother of Hahn like a site covered by the " Superfund" , a bottom for the dangerous material cleaning. The hangar was dismantled and its contents buried as radioactive waste of low level in the Utah. Hahn refused the medical evaluation of its exposure.

References

  • Silverstein, Ken. " Radioactive The Servant boy Scout: When has teenager attempts to build has breeder reactor". Harper' S Magazine , November 1998.
  • Silverstein, Ken. (2004) The Radioactive Servant boy Scout: The Frightening True Story off has Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor . Villard. ISBN 0-8129-6660-0.
  • Ghiorso, Albert. Critical of the The Radioactive Servant boy Scout: The Frightening True Story off has Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor . August 9th, 2004, exit off Chemical and News Engineering (pp. 36-37).

External bonds

  • “the nuclear scout” - Chanel 4
  • “the nuclear badge of merit” - Christian Science Monitor
  • “history of Radioactive Scout” - Harpers Magazine
  • “radioactive Scout” - Ken Silverstein
  • Smoke detector and radioactive Scout
  • Report/ratio of the EPA

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