In this page-turning biography, Silverstein explores one Boy Scout\'s out-of-control love affair with science and his astonishing attempt to build a Nuclear Reactor in his backyard.
This offbeat account of ambition and, ultimately, hubris has the narrative energy of a first-rate thriller..
The EPA ended up burying his lab at a Radioactive dumpsite in Utah.
His wholly unsupervised project finally sparked an environmental emergency that put his town\'s forty thousand suburbanites at risk.
Following blueprints he found in an outdated physics textbook, David cobbled together a crude device that threw off toxic levels of radiation. government and from industry experts.
Posing as a physics professor, David solicited information on Reactor design from the U.
S.
Throwing caution to the wind, he plunged into a new project: building a model Nuclear Reactor in his backyard garden shed.
While he was working on his Atomic Energy badge for the Boy Scouts, David\'s obsessive attention turned to Nuclear energy.
Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science.
High school & older.
In this page-turning biography, Silverstein explores one Boy Scout\'s out-of-control love affair with science and his astonishing attempt to build a Nuclear Reactor in his backyard
