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Swede Arrested For Building Nuclear Reactor

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-you're-playing-with-power dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A 31 year old Swedish male was arrested for trying to build a nuclear reactor in his apartment. He got hold of radioactive material thru mail-order purchases and from smoke detectors. Police raided his apartment after he had contacted the Swedish Radiation Authority (Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten) to inquire if it was legal to construct a nuclear reactor at home."

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  1. Being arrested is no big deal... being CHARGED is. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    What's the big deal about being "arrested"? Police (and others) use their power of arrest all the time. The big story will be if he is charged with something.

  2. headline != article content by rbrausse · · Score: 5, Informative

    he was questioned by the police because he apparently violated some Swedish nuclear material laws.

    the story in short:
    - he invested $950
    - he bought radioactive material and dismantled one domestic fire alarm
    - he blogged about his expirements
    - he asked the Swedish authorities if it is allowed to build a nuclear reactor
    - some official accompanied by police offices visited his flat and found no radiation problem
    - he was questioned at a police stations and was afterwards released
    - all the nuclear stuff was confiscated

  3. another attempt by An+ominous+Cow+art · · Score: 5, Informative

    This kid tried (badly, apparently) to do the same in the US a while back. I lived only a couple of streets over, but had left the area a dozen years before his attempt. I think I delivered newspapers to his house.

  4. Re:How was this going to work? by Dencrypt · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's his blog. Might explain some of his work.
    richardsreactor.blogspot.com/

  5. Re:Prisoner 6 by openfrog · · Score: 2, Informative

    Prisoner 6: "I recorded a video of police beating the crap out of a teenager for no good reason at a bus stop."

    http://neil.fraser.name/news/2010/12/23/
    http://neil.fraser.name/news/2011/04/28/

    P.S. There is a good ending to this story: follow the links to the blog of Neil Fraser, a Google engineer who bailed the guy out after he spent seven months in jail, accused of, since video recording police is not illegal... "attempted lynching"....