Re: Radioactive Boy Scout (was RE: talk to journos) (Thanks!)

[Julie_F_Shafer@FPL.COM]

Thanks for posting this link.  I had heard about this, but never had read

the details.



I wonder how David Hahn is doing now.

 It would be interesting if someone did a follow-up article.

Weren't there some journalists lurking on this list at one time?



Julie Shafer









                                                                                                                

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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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