Ken Silverstein

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The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear ReactorPaperback, 11 January 2005

The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor
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Print Length
240 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Villard Books
Date Published
11 Jan 2005
ISBN-10
0812966600
ISBN-13
9780812966602

Description

Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science. While he was working on his Atomic Energy 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 reactor in his backyard garden shed.

Posing as a physics professor, David solicited information on reactor design from the U.S. government and from industry experts. Following blueprints he found in an outdated physics textbook, David cobbled together a crude device that threw off toxic levels of radiation. His wholly unsupervised project finally sparked an environmental emergency that put his town's forty thousand suburbanites at risk. The EPA ended up burying his lab at a radioactive dumpsite in Utah. This offbeat account of ambition and, ultimately, hubris has the narrative energy of a first-rate thriller.

Product Details

Author:
Ken Silverstein
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
11 January 2005
Dimensions:
19.91 x 14.43 x 1.45 cm
ISBN-10:
0812966600
ISBN-13:
9780812966602
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
240
Publisher:
Weight:
181.44 gm

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