The radioactive boy scout, the frightening true story of a whiz kid and his homemade nuclear reactor, Ken Silverstein
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The radioactive boy scout, the frightening true story of a whiz kid and his homemade nuclear reactor, Ken Silverstein
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-209)
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non fiction
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The radioactive boy scout
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Ken Silverstein
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the frightening true story of a whiz kid and his homemade nuclear reactor
Summary
Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science, and his basement experiments were far more ambitious than those of other boys. While working on his Atomic Energy merit badge for the Boy Scouts, David's obsessive attention turned to nuclear energy. Throwing caution to the wind, he plunged into a new project: building a model nuclear breeder reactor in his backyard garden shed. Ken Silverstein re-creates in brilliant detail the months of David's improbable nuclear quest. His unsanctioned and wholly unsupervised project finally sparked an environmental catastrophe that put his town's forty thousand residents at risk and caused the EPA to shut down his lab and bury it at a radioactive dumpsite in Utah
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