Radioactive Boy Scout (was RE: talk to journos)

["Strickert, Rick" <rstrickert@signaturescience.com>]

The Nov. 1998 Harper's Magazine article about David Hahn, the "Radioactive Boy Scout" can be seen at 

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1111/n1782_v297/21281407/print.jhtml



According to the article David worked to generate neutrons from his americium and radium sources with a beryllium target so that he could fission some uranium.



The 1998 article noted that Eagle Scout David eventually joined the Navy and was a seaman about the nuclear-powered aricraft carrier, the USS Enterprise. David refused to undergo tests to determine whether he had become contaminated from his expierments with radioactive materials.  The article quotes David:  "I wanted to make a scratch in life.  I've still got time. I don't believe I took more than five years off of my life."



Rick Strickert

Austin, TX



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