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Boy scouts, organization, originally for boys from 11 to 14 or 15 years of age, that aimed to develop in them good citizenship, chivalrous behavior, and skill in outdoor activities. Albert and stories of grand capers like catch me if you can, the radioactive boy scout is a reallife adventure with the narrative energy of a firstrate thriller. Posing as a physics professor, david solicited information on reactor design from the u. The potting shed in the hahns yard next door was getting a lot of attention. In the summer of 1995, a teenager in a detroit suburb, a mediocre student with a relentless scientific curiosity, managed to build a rudimentary nuclear breeder reactor in a shed behind his mothers house, using radioactive elements obtained from items as ordinary as smoke detectors. The book is about how a kid named david hahn came to building a small breeder reactor in his backyard and what lead to him as he was growing up to build it. The boy scout movement was founded in great britain in 1908 by lieutenant general robert s. Ken silverstein traces a young boy s obsessive fascination with science and nuclear physics, which eventually compelled him to misrepresent himself to the government and build a. Details about the plot details about the setting details about the characters the setting is in a neighborhood in the suburbs of detroit. Kris silverstein is a investigative reporter for the washington, d. The radioactive boy scout march 2, 2004 edition open.
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