White kid builds nuclear reactor and Homeland Security offers help

[deminks]

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/white-kid-builds-nuclear-reactor-and-homeland-security-offers-help/

A Muslim teenager built a simple clock out of electronic components and took it to show his engineering teacher at school — but he was arrested when another teacher thought it looked like a bomb and alerted administrators.

Police in Irving, Texas, never suspected the device was an explosive device and did not alert the bomb squad, but they still arrested 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed because he could offer no “broader explanation” for his clock besides describing it as a device that measures time.

When another 14-year-old boy built a nuclear reactor at his parents’ home he was invited to meet with officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Energy — who offered their expert assistance, equipment and encouragement to apply for a research grant.

Taylor Wilson, who is white, entered his nuclear fusion reactor five years ago in a series of science fairs that eventually won him a trip to Switzerland, where he toured the Large Hadron Collider — the world’s largest particle accelerator.

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So how many scientists in Iran have been invited to collaborate with our scientists? Just a thought.

[leveymg]

1. The US exported the first reactor to Iran under the "Atoms for Peace" Program during the Johnson Adm

Almost all senior Iranian nuclear scientists were trained in the US under the same program.

My question is where Taylor Wilson got his nuclear fuel rods. The local Army/Navy surplus store? Maybe there's uranium in his back yard?

[tk2kewl]

2. No Uranium... Deuterium

OP indicates Wilson's project was a fusion reactor not a fission reactor.

[leveymg]

3. Okay. Where did he get the Deuterium and Dilithium Chrystals? Starfleet Depot?

Just kidding. Heavy water and deuterium gas are both commercially available. I guess all he needs is a really powerful phaser cannon to set off a reaction (guess any decent gun shop would have one of those) and a magnetic plasma containment vessel - er, I mean, laser.

Where does one get a magnetic plasma bottle?

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[LiberalArkie]

4. Well there you go. White kids are no threat no matter what. Geez didn't they teach you in school

that the different ones are the trouble makers.

[Heeeeers Johnny]

5. Reminds me of 'the Radioactive Boy Scout'.

White or not, I can imagine what the reaction to his experimentation would be like if it happened today.

Cliff Notes version.

Convinced he needed discipline, David's father, Ken, felt the solution lay in a goal that he didn't himself achieve, Eagle Scout, which requires 21 merit badges. David earned a merit badge in Atomic Energy in May 1991, five months shy of his 15th birthday. By now, though, he had grander ambitions.

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David learned that a tiny amount of the radioactive isotope americium-241 could be found in smoke detectors. he contacted smoke-detector companies and claimed that he needed a large number for a school project. One company sold him about a hundred broken detectors for a dollar apiece.

Not sure where the americium was located, he wrote to an electronics firm in Illinois. A customer-service representative wrote back to say she'd be happy to help out with "your report." Thanks to her help, David extracted the material. He put the americium inside a hollow block of lead with a tiny hole pricked in one side so that alpha rays would stream out. In front of the block he placed a sheet of aluminum, its atoms absorb alpha rays and kick out neutrons. His neutron gun was ready.

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At the shed, radiological experts found an aluminum pie pan, a Pyrex cup, a milk crate and other materials strewn about, contaminated at up to 1000 times the normal levels of background radiation. Because some of this could be moved around by wind and rain, conditions at the site, according to an EPA memo, "present an imminent endangerment to public health."

After the moon-suited workers dismantled the shed, they loaded the remains into 39 sealed barrels that were trucked to the Great Salt Lake Desert. There, the remains of David's experiments were entombed with other radioactive debris.

http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html

David Charles Hahn (born October 30, 1976), also called the "Radioactive Boy Scout" or the "Nuclear Boy Scout", is an American who attempted to build a homemade breeder nuclear reactor in 1994, at age 17. A Scout in the Boy Scouts of America, Hahn conducted his experiments in secret in a backyard shed at his mother's house in Clinton Township, Michigan. While his reactor never reached critical mass, Hahn attracted the attention of local police when he was stopped on another matter and they found material in his vehicle that troubled them and he warned that it was radioactive. His mother's property was cleaned up by the Environmental Protection Agency ten months later as a Superfund cleanup site. Hahn attained Eagle Scout rank shortly after his lab was dismantled

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

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[MADem]

6. Bet that white kid wasn't a Muslim, either. nt