I saw an interesting documentary tonight about a boy scout who built his own nuclear reactor in his shed. This isn't a joke.
Here's a link to the
story.
Using home products, americium from around 300 smoke detectors, thorium in gas lantern mantles, and radium in paint found in old clocks, he managed to construct a nuclear reactor in the back of his shed. He only got worried and was caught by the police after the radiation from his makeshift reactor became so strong he could detect it all the way across the street. The EPA had to come and dismantle his shed and bury it in a nuclear waste dump in Nevada.
Yes...the Boy Scouts do have an Atomic Energy badge.
