The Radioactive boy Scout : : the Frightening True Story of a Whiz kid and his Homemade Nuclear Reactor
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COMMUNITY REVIEWS
White Lake, Michigan is the setting submitted by hoppingfun on June 29, 2011, 2:12pm This is in an incredible story that takes place just half an hour from Ann Arbor. This kid collected radioactive materials from smoke alarms, glow-in-dark watches, and other sources and built a model of a nuclear reactor in his backyard and basement—complete with neutron gun. And he did it, in part, in order to become an Eagle Scout before he turned 18, earning a coveted Atomic Energy badge. As authorities closed in (in hazmat suits), he dumped much of his science project in a landfill. Word has it that there's a movie in the making.
PUBLISHED
New York : Random House, 2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: 207 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 1300
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0812966600 (softcover)
037550351X :
SUBJECTS
Hahn, David, -- 1976-
Boy Scouts of America.
Gifted boys -- Biography.
Problem youth -- Biography.
Breeder reactors.