The radioactive boy scout :
Silverstein, Ken
The radioactive boy scout : the frightening true story of a whiz kid and his homemade nuclear reactor / Ken Silverstein - Villard Books trade pbk. ed - New York : Villard, 2005. c2004 - xviii, 209 p. ; 19 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-209)
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
0812966600 9780812966602
Hahn, David, 1976-2016
Boy Scouts of America
Gifted boys--United States--Biography
Problem youth--United States--Biography
Breeder reactors
The radioactive boy scout : the frightening true story of a whiz kid and his homemade nuclear reactor / Ken Silverstein - Villard Books trade pbk. ed - New York : Villard, 2005. c2004 - xviii, 209 p. ; 19 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-209)
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
0812966600 9780812966602
Hahn, David, 1976-2016
Boy Scouts of America
Gifted boys--United States--Biography
Problem youth--United States--Biography
Breeder reactors