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It's completely believable. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn That doesn't make it any less terrifying. Th
by sithadmin 11y ago
It's completely believable. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
That doesn't make it any less terrifying. This kind of thing is how you end up with a superfund site on your hands.
- fnordfnordfnord 11y agoMaybe, I'm more worried about local industry's contribution than some science nerd's overly-ambitious projects.
- blacksmith_tb 11y agoIt would be preferable if the suddenly-wealthy tinkerer was inspired to build a solar farm instead, yes. Or even a thorium reactor. I would think that refining your own uranium would be fairly hazardous to your own health, even if it wasn't enough to leave much of dangerous cleanup site.
- dghughes 11y agoI remember reading that and it's much more believable. I really wanted to try it butnof course didn't but the smoke detector americium and aluminum pie plates always makes me laugh. And "they were sawing up the shed with electric saws and a uffing the pieces in barrels". We need to get that German lady BioNerd here to verify these stories.