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The Radioactive Boy Scout: When a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor
- joshuapants 11y agoThere is a book about this incident by the same title. It's been so long since I've read it that I don't remember if it was any good. I got my atomic energy merit badge as a teen, though I was content to make my model reactor out of K'Nex.
- jackvalentine 11y agoDavid, the lad in this tale, has since been diagnosed with mental illness and arrested for stealing smoke detectors. Sadly, things didn't turn out as well as they could have for someone with so much drive.
- gotopriapizmo 11y agoread the last paragraph ! > David finally gave in. After completing boot camp last year, he was stationed on the nuclear-powered USS Enterprise aircraft carrier.
- jackvalentine 11y agoThe article is from 1998.
- gotopriapizmo 11y agooops, sorry.