Swedish man pinched for attempting to split atoms in kitchen

[joslar15]

So, Richard gathers up his fissionable material then asks if it's ok to build a nuclear reactor in his kitchen.

Richard, everyone knows you don't do something like this in your own kitchen. This is one of those things you do in your mother's basement!

Man Building Nuclear Reactor in Kitchen Arrested - William Pentland - Clean Beta - Forbes

 

[Scutter01]

It's been done. I lived not too far from this guy when he pulled this incredibly dangerous stunt back in '94.

David Hahn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[joslar15]

It's been done. I lived not too far from this guy when he pulled this incredibly dangerous stunt back in '94.

David Hahn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Maybe David was his inspiration. Or, he's really a right-wing terrorist!

 

[Gabriel]

It's been done. I lived not too far from this guy when he pulled this incredibly dangerous stunt back in '94.

David Hahn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thanks for that link. He was mentioned briefly in one of my last training courses and I was going to look him up, but forgot about it.

 

[Oliver]

The Hahn story is out there. Sounds more like a comic book than reality. "Boy Scout pushes his imagination and fascination of the elements into a micro reactor. Then gets caught by authorities. Realizes his mistakes and joins the Navy, but gets kicked out only to promise and seek revenge by building a larger scale reactor. It melts down exposing him to large amounts of radiation that transforms him into THE SUPER SCOUT!!! DUN DUN DUNNN.........-insert favorite superhero now. haha

 

[jedi]

It's been done. I lived not too far from this guy when he pulled this incredibly dangerous stunt back in '94.

David Hahn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dangerous perhaps but the kid had/has the "right stuff". Ie. He is pushing himself to learn more about the sciences and experimenting with them. Many before have done just that and their failures and sucesses have lead us to where we are now.

Should all this work be done behind .gov doors? Nope! All the imagination to flourish and see what is possible.

 

[Scutter01]

Dangerous perhaps but the kid had/has the "right stuff". Ie. He is pushing himself to learn more about the sciences and experimenting with them. Many before have done just that and their failures and sucesses have lead us to where we are now.

Should all this work be done behind .gov doors? Nope! All the imagination to flourish and see what is possible.

I generally have no problem with home science, but the kid had no idea of how dangerous his experiment was. He failed to take adequate safety precautions, including loading unshielded radioactive waste into the trunk of his car and driving it around town. The amount of radiation he released (and had the potential to release had he "gone live") posed a major threat to the people living in his neighborhood (and potentially for blocks around). This was not simply something that would have burned off his eyebrows and left comical wisps of smoke in his hair. He turned his backyard into a Superfund hazmat cleanup site.

 

[Bunnykid68]

So, he shouldn't be allowed to do it because someone might get hurt?

 

[Scutter01]

So, he shouldn't be allowed to do it because someone might get hurt?

Are you saying he should have been allowed to irradiate his neighborhood?

 

[Bushido Devil Dog]

So, he shouldn't be allowed to do it because someone might get hurt?

That is correct, sir...he should not be allowed to dick around with nuclear materials that he knows little about. His "right" to do so ends where the health and safety of his next-door neighbors begins. Methinks you perhaps may be trying to draw a comparison with the arguments the anti-gun sheeple make, but that dog don't hunt... Even a locked and loaded pistol will not be able to harm someone until someone touches it. The same cannot be said for radioactive material. Even being exposed to a miniscule amount by being near it or ingesting it can/is fatal; just ask the ghost of Alexander Litvinenko...