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'Radioactive Boy Scout' Reportedly Passes Away At Age 39 (harpers.org)
A funeral notice quietly appeared on Tributes.com recently, announcing the death of David Charles Hahn. Though no cause of death was provided, when he was 17 Hahn "achieved some notoriety as a teenage Boy Scout with his attempt to build a nuclear reactor in his garden shed," remembers Slashdot reader braindrainbahrain:
His "reactor" ended when the EPA declared his backyard as a Superfund cleanup site due to hazardous levels of radiation. His story was captured in a Harper's magazine article, and later the book "The Radioactive Boy Scout" by Ken Silverstein. It was also a Slashdot topic...
Hahn had used materials from household products like lithium batteries, smoke detectors, and old radium clocks, according to Wikipedia, which adds that shortly after Hahn's lab was dismantled, he became an Eagle Scout.
Hahn had used materials from household products like lithium batteries, smoke detectors, and old radium clocks, according to Wikipedia, which adds that shortly after Hahn's lab was dismantled, he became an Eagle Scout.
"Don't try this at home".
He's going to have to shoot for the 2020 election I'm afraid
'Police say that Hahn's face was covered with open sores, possibly from constant exposure to radioactive materials.'
I thought most Slashdotters were very much in favor of open sores.
#DeleteChrome
His first story piqued my curiosity, but his second cemented my feelings he loved the limelight. Or at least, enjoyed the attention he garnered from his first endeavors.
Ironically, that limelight had a rather radioactive glow about it...