Boy scout, 17, made his entire neighbourhood radioactive after building nuclear reactor in his mum's garden
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A present for the future generations, a touch of reactor-grade plutonium. These are Soviet smoke detectors, and they contain quite a bit of plutonium, up to 1 mili curies of dirty plutonium. :
Consumer Products | Canadian Nuclear Association
Uh-oh! 'Radioactive Boy Scout' who built a nuclear reactor in his Detroit shed sparking evacuation of 40,000 now wants to invent a lightbulb that lasts 100 years | Daily Mail Online
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David Hahn, aka The Nuclear Boy Scout, made a small reactor in his mother's garden as a child. In 2006 he was arrested for stealing smoke alarms for their radioactive materials, his
Who was David Hahn and why was he nicknamed the nuclear boy scout? - Interesting Engineering
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Boy scout, 17, made his entire neighbourhood radioactive after building nuclear reactor in his mum's garden
Your household smoke detectors
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