[Rockhounds] homemade nuclear reactors (was P=holes and detectors)

[J Bryan Kramer]

The unanswered question in this article is what happened to the radium and
thorium that went to the dump. He missed a easier to obtain source of
thorium, it is used in some welding rods. And there is a source of polonium
in 500 uC chunks that is is easy to get, but I'm not saying where. It can be
used in a neutron generator.

BK

On Feb 2, 2008 11:38 AM, <Pmodreski at aol.com> wrote:

>
> Very interesting--never heard of this!  It took me a while of reading
>  this,
> and the book review you linked to these stories, to puzzle over whether
>  this
> was real, or a fictional story pretending to be real.  I think I  finally
> figured out that it is... well, you decide for yourselves.
>
> (Interestingly, googling for "Radioactive Boy Scout" also comes up with an
> apparently unrelated 2007 story, from Discover Magazine, about a different
> teenager (also from Michigan) who supposedly achieved deuterium fusion in
> his
> home lab. The issue is NOT dated April 1, so I'm still trying to figure
>  that
> one out, too...)
>
> Pete M.
>


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