Teen Builds Nuclear Bomb Detector

Posted by timothy on Friday June 17, 2011 @08:30PM from the and-for-my-next-trick dept.

DaneM writes "An enterprising teenage boy named Taylor Wilson, 17, has created a homemade, hand-held nuclear bomb detector. It utilizes a small fusion reactor that he made when he was 14, and detects nuclear materials by shooting neutrons at closed containers and exciting any nuclear materials inside — which, in turn, causes more radiation to be produced, and is detected by the device. This may provide a simpler, more effective alternative to searching containers visually, one-at-a-time. No information is given about how safe such a practice is. Taylor also has some choice things to say about how science is, in fact, very cool."

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And his Dad by jimmydevice · 2011-06-17 20:55 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Another kid holding up something his pop designed, with nodding approval from the kid as he shows off a machine that would take months to build, CAD, proto, testing, more machining, testing. When did this kid go to school? REALLY? REALLY? This is just another science project by a hi-tech dad, thrown to a kid that "probably" doesn't totally understand, or couldn't do the design that he's holding in his hands .without the holding hands of PhD Dad or Mom. Something like this requires money and a lot more.