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This listing won't be full without David Hahn aka "Nuclear Boy Scout". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

• codezero 10y ago
  Wow totally forgot about this. Wiki linked to an article about what he's been up to recently: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2506549/Uh-oh-Radioactive-Boy-Scout-built-nuclear-reactor-Detroit-shed-sparking-evacuation-40-000-wants-invent-lightbulb-lasts-100-years.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2506549/Uh-oh-Radioa... He's been through a lot but still has a hunger for learning.
• deepnet 10y ago
  Hahn was working with fission not fusion , he was not a 'fusioneer' but splitting the atom. Hahn produced amazing amateur nuclear work nonetheless, ( somewhat out of control when his reactor went critical ).
  • arethuza 10y ago
    I wonder if you could use a Farnswoth Fusor as a neutron source to do some fissioning?
    • myrryr 10y ago
      yes you can, and it means you can have a reactor which (when the power to the fusor fails), it turns off(ish).
• lakkal 10y ago
  I read his story a while back and was shocked that I used live nearby and may have (as a paperboy) delivered newspapers to his house. I left the area a few years before his experiments, though.