VIDEO: 17 Year Old Boy Scout Builds Nuclear Reactor In Backyard And Makes Neighbourhood Radioactive

Now, if general life isn’t scary enough as it is, this teenager managed to build a nuclear reactor at 17 in his backyard.

Back in 1994, in a shed next to his mother’s house, the then 17-year-old David Hahn made a nuclear reactor from batteries, old clocks, lanterns, uranium from Czechoslovakia and duct tape. The science experiment attracted media attention and David was named the “Radioactive Boy Scout”

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