It looks like his skin grew back.
Posted on 10/04/2007 12:03:14 PM PDT by Westlander
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) - A man who tried to build a nuclear reactor in a shed as a teenager will be assessed by doctors before starting a 90-day jail sentence for stealing smoke detectors.
David Hahn, 31, was sentenced Tuesday in Macomb County Circuit Court on attempted larceny from a building. He was arrested in August after a maintenance worker saw him steal a smoke detector from his Clinton Township apartment complex. Police later found 15 other smoke detectors in his apartment.
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He’ll probably only do a half-sentence.
Radioactive Boy Scout? Weren’t they a garage band in Boston in the early ‘80s?
MI ping
He’s after the Americium in the smoke detector. It can be used as an exciter in a nuclear reactor. He’s trying to build another reactor. I wonder if his mother’s potting shed is still radioactive from his last attempt?
I think a lot of fire departments do smoke detector giveaways from time to time. That's what he should have done instead of stealing them. Well, he really shouldn't being building reactors and other dangerous toys, but that's a different matter.
“I wonder if his mother’s potting shed is still radioactive from his last attempt?”
We’ll never know - that shed is 1 mile deep somewhere in Nevada.
Well, he really shouldn't being building reactors and other dangerous toys,
Everyone wants to take the fun out of being a boy
I remember reading this article a couple of years ago on here and being amazed. Now I think this guy is just an idiot. Why not go to college and learn these things instead of breaking the law to build another reactor to put people in danger. He is lucky some Fed doesn’t send him to Guantanamo.
David held a series of after-school jobs at fast-food joints, grocery stores and furniture warehouses, but work was merely a means of financing his experiments. Never an enthusiastic student, he fell behind in school, scoring poorly on state math and reading tests (he did, however, ace the test in science).
This is the type of individual who wants to learn what he wants to learn and is bored to tears by structured learning.
He is a Edison type of guy. His only problem is what he has decided to toy with is high dangerous and regulated.
One hundred years ago he would have no problems.
Everyone wants to take the fun out of being a boy
Wow! I remember (and had some of) the chemistry sets, but never saw that one, thanks! Amazing.
An MD in the 1920s was experimenting, probably with radium, in his practice.
Homer Simpson bought his tomacco seeds from her. Now we know how they developed.
Wow. One of those recently sold for nearly $8000 in an auction.
The 'Home Reactor' was something covered by science and hobby magazines decades ago. Maybe he just believed what he read in Popular Science?
He may be an "idiot" but he's on a good track.
Is an exciter like a French tickler? What does it do in a nuclear reactor?
You can go to jail for setting off smoke detectors?
Whoops, I read it wrong. STEALING smoke detectors, not setting them off. Ignore my last post...
These Startup Sources are typically only needed for a fresh reactor core. After a reactor has been at power for a few weeks the irradiated fuel supplies its own neutrons from decaying spent fuel.
"A man who built a nuclear reactor in a shed as a teenager ..."
Fixed it. He really did get a sustained reaction going that was increasing in intensity daily.
You might like this thread.
I guess that it was technically a sub-critical assembly
Hmmmm....smoke detectors have a radioactive element americium-241... Hope this guy didn't convert to Islam or something?
A nuclear French tickler?...the mind boggles
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Mitten ingenuity!
My understanding is that it can be used to induce the release of neutrons...
I’m pretty sure this is in part just a hit piece on the Boy Scouts of America. :’)
But anyway, this kid probably has figured out some way to turn something (besides the Americium) from a smoke detector into crystal meth.
Actually I think he is potentially more in the class of Tesla...
You are right in the New Corporate State there is no place for him...
He is a misfit and will suffer the consequence of our inability to protect those among us who just a few Generations ago would be recognized as Genius.
W
I briefly considered Tesla, but I consider Tesla a true scientist expanding the boundaries of science. Tesla made actual scientific discoveries. Edison (to my knowledge) did not.
This guy is more of a gifted tinkerer as was Edison. Edison took what was known and fiddled with it to make something.
I think this guy may have the potential to be an Edison but unfortunately he has chosen an area of pursuit that is legally off limits outside of universities and government labs.
Private experimentation is strictly verboten.
Let’s see you get that through airport security!
Actually I think he is potentially more in the class of Tesla...
I briefly considered Tesla, but I consider Tesla a true scientist expanding the boundaries of science. Tesla made actual scientific discoveries. Edison (to my knowledge) did not.
This guy is more of a gifted tinkerer as was Edison. Edison took what was known and fiddled with it to make something.
I think this guy may have the potential to be an Edison but unfortunately he has chosen an area of pursuit that is legally off limits outside of universities and government labs.
Private experimentation is strictly verboten.
You know it is hard to say.. I agree this guy has never been provided a place to stand. He first got into trouble as a kid. Wasn’t it the Navy to it’s credit who got him work in the Navy’s nuke program as a Sailor?. That would have been something like Walt Disney in the Marines (yes he was briefly lol) The shoe was a poor fit I suspect.
I hope that Judge has half a brain and finds a decent math or science professor (With the exception of the “Earth Sciences” Hard science and Engineering still have a great many decent professors. (although there is a Math Genius serving life in Prison for killing a three Professor Board who were being A$$Hat elitists IMO. (His response to the life sentence “good I will have more time for Math”.
Sentence him to work as an assistant to a older Science Prof.
Maybe he will not wind up serving life in prison, working for AQ or dead in the gutter as an alcoholic.
Let us hope
W
I doubt that would work out.
Make sure your read the article linked in Post # 3.
The guy was a poor student. Got poor scores in math.
I don't think he can work in a structured environment.
What a waste!
“No dangerous or explosive chemicals” LOL.
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