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Ich muss mal kritisch meinen Medienkonsum hinterfragen: Wie kommt es, dass ich erst heute zum ersten Mal von David Hahn höre? Wikipedia-Snip:
"David Hahn is a man known for his attempt to build a breeder nuclear reactor in 1994 in his backyard shed in Commerce Township, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at age 17. Hahn spent years tinkering with basement chemistry which sometimes resulted in small explosions and other mishaps. He diligently amassed this radioactive material by collecting small amounts from household products, such as americium from smoke detectors, thorium from camping lantern mantles, radium from clocks and tritium from gunsights. His "reactor" was a large, bored-out block of lead, and he used lithium from $1,000 worth of purchased, batteries to purify the thorium ash using a Bunsen burner. Although his homemade reactor never achieved critical mass, it ended up emitting dangerous levels of radioactivity, likely well over 1,000 times normal background radiation."Das Video stammt aus der 20-minütigen Dokumentation "Nuclear Boy Scout". Als Sachbuch ist Hahns Geschichte unter dem Titel "The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor" erschienen.
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