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IncandescentGastoday at 6:04 PM2 repliesview on HN

A high school kid tried to build a nuclear reactor as a science project a while back, getting his mom's house designated as a superfund cleanup site.

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


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why_attoday at 6:15 PM

He didn't create a nuclear reactor, this is a common misconception. It even says this in the wikipedia article.

He basically got a bunch of radioactive stuff and put it together. He wasn't anywhere close to making a nuclear reactor let alone a nuclear weapon. For a weapon you need isotopes which he didn't have access to.

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redsocksfan45today at 6:10 PM

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