The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (727 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812966600 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 209 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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This offbeat account of ambition and, ultimately, hubris has the narrative energy of a first-rate thriller.. Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science. Following blueprints he found in an outdated physics textbook, David cobbled together a crude device that threw off toxic levels of radiation. His wholly unsupervised project finally sparked an environmental emergency that put his town’s forty thousand suburbanites at risk. The EPA ended up burying his lab at a radioactive dumpsite in Utah. government and from industry experts. While he was working on his Atomic Energy 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 reactor in his backyard garden shed.Posing as a physics professor, David solicited information on reactor design from the U.S
Anh Nguyen said Radioactive Boy Scout Review. Although this story revolves around how a teenager nearly built a nuclear reactor in his back yard, there is more to the story that Silverstein wants us to find out. He emphasizes how David Hahn, the main character of the story, was neglected by his parents; who would treat him more as a burden and less as their son. David's father, Ken, like many other divorced and re-married individuals, walk. Think chemistry is boring? You won't after reading this Travis A fun and great intro to chemistry that is actually a true story. Never dull and you'll learn without even realizing it. Join a young boy as he innocently gathers a collection of every element in the periodic table while diving deeper and deeper into the world of chemistry until he attempts to build his own nuclear reactor and what happens when he does.. Good story, bad anti-scout, anti-nuke slant Joseph S. Volz As both an Eagle Scout, Scout leader, and working in the commercial nuclear energy field, I felt that the book had a very anti-scout and anti-nuclear slant.The story of David Hahn, minus the anti-scout and anti-nuclear slant, was good. It shows that the current eduction system does not look for a student that excels in one particular area, but teach to the "average" student.
In the post 9/11 era, the prospect is even more frightening. In his final pages, Silverstein shows that power production from nuclear reactors has slowly ebbed over the last decades, breeder reactors world-wide have been shut down, and public apprehension has finally out-stripped naïve scientific exuberance for atomic energy. In subsequent days, the crew, wearing protective suits, carted away the refuse in sealed barrels emblazoned with radiation symbols. In fact, Silverstein hints that David himself may still be dabbling with radioactive materials. For David to get so far, Silverstein shows, he had to be t