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The Nuclear Boy Scout
2003 · Film · documentary · 24 min
Directed by Bindu Mathur
David Hahn in the mid-nineties was a teenage boy scout working towards his merit badges. One badge in particular, the Atomic Energy Merit Badge, caught his imagination when it required him to make a model of a nuclear reactor out of cotton buds etc. David went further and sought out household sources of the materials he would need to make his reactor. Here he talks us through what he did and the surprising results he got.
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FYI:
David Charles Hahn (October 30, 1976 - September 27, 2016),
sometimes called the "Radioactive Boy Scout" or the "Nuclear Boy Scout" : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
The Nuclear Boy Scout - A Short Documentary : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WyFktKBGfIA
The Nuclear Boy Scout (TV Short 2003) - IMDb : https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0378468/
There's also an interesting documentary with Hahn going through some of the methods he used, called 'The Nuclear Boy Scout'.