Radioactive Boy Scout
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781588363565 (1588363562)
Publish date: March 2nd 2004
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Academic,
School,
Book Club,
Science,
Technology,
Physics
The Radioactive Boy Scout is a small book with a big punch. Ken Silverstein's account of David Hahn, the teenager whose backyard nuclear experiments resulted in such high radiation that the EPA was called in to clean up the site, is unaccountably gripping.The many historical chapters on the discover...
"This article is being reprinted here as an example of what NOT to do with radioactive materials. Pleasedo NOT attempt to recreate any part of these experiments for the following reasons: You will mostlikely poison yourself and/or others. Nobody really needs an unsafe homemade reactor (especially on...
I couldn't stop reading this odd and scary true story. David, the mad scientist kid, is so single-minded that it's almost surreal. He takes risks that are unforgivable. I'm using the present tense because it's clear from the afterword that he's still collecting radium and other radioactive stuff. Hi...
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