The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor
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New York, NY Villard Books (Random House), 2004.
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New York, NY Villard Books (Random House), 2004.
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Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinate by science. While he was working on his Atomic Energy badge for the Boy Scouts, David's obsessive attention turned to nuclear energy. Throwing caution to the wind, he plunged into a new project: building a model nuclear reactor in his backyard garden shed. Posing as a physics professor, David solicited information on reactor design from the U.S. government and from industry experts. Following blueprints he found in an outdated physics textbook, David cobbled together a crude device that threw off toxic levels of radiation. His wholly unsupervised project finally sparked an environmental emergency that put his town's forty thousand residents at risk, and the EPA ended up burying David's lab at a radioactive dumpsite in Utah. This offbeat account of ambition and hubris has the narrative energy of a first-rate thriller.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Silverstein, K. (2004). The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor . Villard Books (Random House).
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Silverstein, Ken. 2004. The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor. Villard Books (Random House).
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Silverstein, Ken. The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor Villard Books (Random House), 2004.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Silverstein, Ken. The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor Villard Books (Random House), 2004.
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