The Boy and his Breeder Reactor

scubacuda writes "Here is an interesting tale about a Boy Scout who went a little too far in trying to achieve a merit badge in Atomic Energy. From smoke alarms, lantern components, the paint from radio clocks, and a little help from the Nuclear Regulator Commission, David Hahn attempted to build a nuclear reactor in his mother's shed. Regarding his excessive radioactive exposure, Hahn says, "I don't believe I took more than five years off my life."" While this is an oldish story (1998) it is not the pathetic self congratulatory lame princeton story.

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Re:Ah, the frustration of searching /.

[tenman]

I just got a call from Rob. basicly he said,

• "you organize the fund for a cache server"
• "you pay for the diskspace to index our DB"
• "you burn the CD's"
• "You pay us (VA) for the rights to publish iyr stories"
• "You pay the relatively inexpensive costs of quarterly updates.

but the thing that really got him twisted...

• you to pay the copywrite fees, to all the users who would claim ownership of thier works if CD/DVDs like that where to hit a market.

I think his point was "We've looked at it, and we are not set up to handle such a thing. If we claimed ownership of all posting,
1) we would be liable for what they say, and
2) we would owe the original owners for the copy."

I hope this clears everything up

hell no, it's not true... I would never give that punk malda my number :)