THE RADIOACTIVE BOY SCOUT: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor
Ken Silverstein, . . Random, $22.95 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-375-50351-1
In the summer of 1995, a teenager in a Detroit suburb, a mediocre student with a relentless scientific curiosity, managed to build a rudimentary nuclear breeder reactor in a shed behind his mother's house, using radioactive elements obtained from items as ordinary as smoke detectors. He got so far along in his efforts that when the Feds finally caught up with him, the EPA used Superfund money (usually spent on the worst hazardous waste sites) to clean up the shed. Building on a
Reviewed on: 01/12/2004
Genre: Nonfiction
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