TY  - BOOK
AU  - Silverstein,Ken
TI  - The radioactive boy scout: the frightening true story of a whiz kid and his homemade nuclear reactor 
SN  - 0812966600
AV  - TK9014.H34 S54 2005
U1  - 621.483 .S587 
PY  - 2005///. c2004
CY  - New York
PB  - Villard
KW  - Hahn, David,
KW  - Boy Scouts of America
KW  - fast
KW  - Gifted boys
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Problem youth
KW  - Breeder reactors
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209); Prologue: men in white: the nuclear age comes to Golf Manor --; Roots: the making of a teenage scientist --; From the radium craze to the soaring sixties: science conquers all --; Burning down the house: basement explosions and other early developments --; Radioactive education: lessons from the boy scouts --; Stalking the periodic table: elements, my dear Watson --; How nuclear enthusiasts planned to solve the energy crisis: a brief history of the breeder reactor --; From theory to practice: how the potting shed came to glow --; Busted: the collapse of David's dream --; Epilogue: postnuclear syndrome: David's radioactive exile; 1300; Lexile
N2  - Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science, and his basement experiments were far more ambitious than those of other boys. While working on his Atomic Energy merit badge for the Boy Scouts, David's obsessive attention turned to nuclear energy. Throwing caution to the wind, he plunged into a new project: building a model nuclear breeder reactor in his backyard garden shed. Ken Silverstein re-creates in brilliant detail the months of David's improbable nuclear quest. His unsanctioned and wholly unsupervised project finally sparked an environmental catastrophe that put his town's forty thousand residents at risk and caused the EPA to shut down his lab and bury it at a radioactive dumpsite in Utah
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