Re: Fission Bomb Geometries

["Jim Hardeman" <Jim_Hardeman@MAIL.DNR.STATE.GA.US>]

Dave Minnaar (rad program in Michigan) gave an excellent presentation on this "incident" a few years back at the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors (CRCPD) meeting in Louisville, KY. I'm pretty certain he would still have the presentation, if anybody's interested.



Jim Hardeman

Jim_Hardeman@mail.dnr.state.ga.us 



>>> Chuck Cooper <ccc@pp.pdx.edu> 4/24/2002 10:41:03 >>>

See the story at: http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html 



Neil, David M wrote:



>A few years back, there was a teen who collected a LOT of smoke detector

>sources, with the idea of building his own reactor.  I suppose he planned to

>use the neutron flux to bootstrap up to fuel breeding, but the article was

>short on precise details.  This may not have been accidental ...   ;-)

>

>His workshop was declared a Superfund site.

>

>Dave Neil

>





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