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Aktungbby · 11-14-13, 03:59 PM

Some decades ago an overly gifted child took the small radio active units from gazillions of used or disposed-of smoke detectors to create his own superfund cleanup nuclear critical mass pile...I believe the article was in Readers' Digest...

idleminds oft go KABLOOEY! 1994 Young David Hahn of Michigan, using added ingredients from tritium clock faces, smoke detector Ameicium and cooked lithium batteries to make thorium ash-all in a lead pipe- didn't quite get to critical mass before being interrupted by local police. HE did however attain his NUCLEAR ENERGY Boy Scout Merit Badge! En.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

11-14-13, 03:59 PM	#11
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,137 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Some decades ago an overly gifted child took the small radio active units from gazillions of used or disposed-of smoke detectors to create his own superfund cleanup nuclear critical mass pile...I believe the article was in Readers' Digest... idleminds oft go KABLOOEY! 1994 Young David Hahn of Michigan, using added ingredients from tritium clock faces, smoke detector Ameicium and cooked lithium batteries to make thorium ash-all in a lead pipe- didn't quite get to critical mass before being interrupted by local police. HE did however attain his NUCLEAR ENERGY Boy Scout Merit Badge! En.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!! Last edited by Aktungbby; 11-14-13 at 04:16 PM.