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Radioactive Boyscout

dryan
in Inorganic Chemistry

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I heard about this a while back. You know how some people can be dumb, but in a "very smart" kind of way?

This is a interesting (true) story about the "Radioactive Boyscout" who tried to make a nuclear reactor in his garage.

And he came pretty close to succeeding.

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Sorry, I didn't see that thread - (searched for "boyscout," not "boy scout" :))

 

This is a fun site though, and I haven't heard much talk of it here:

http://www.powerlabs.org

Electromagnetic projects (Railguns, Microwave guns), High Voltage stuff, [unstable] Chemical Syntheses, Cryogenics, Canons, and more fun stuff.

 

Lots of the pictures are clickable, and you'll find videos of his experiments.

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