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02333cam a2200433Ia 4500 001 8644EC842B0911DEBA4F1C08A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20190308082542 008 050121t20052004nyu b 000 0beng d 020 $a 9780812966602 020 $a 0812966600 035 $a (OCoLC)57471123 040 $a BIB $c BIB $d SILO $d XY4 $d BAKER $d JW2 $d EUF $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d EM5 $d SINLB $d VRC $d IWB $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 14 $a TK9014.H34 $b S54 2005 082 04 $a 621.483092 $2 22 100 1 $a Silverstein, Ken. 245 1 $a The radioactive boy scout : $b the frightening true story of a whiz kid and his homemade nuclear reactor / $c Ken Silverstein. 250 $a Villard Books trade pbk. ed. 260 $a New York : $b Villard, $c 2005. c2004. 300 $a xviii, 209 p. ; $c 19 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-209). 520 $a Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science, and his basement experiments were far more ambitious than those of other boys. While working on his Atomic Energy merit badge for the Boy Scouts, David's obsessive attention turned to nuclear energy. Throwing caution to the wind, he plunged into a new project: building a model nuclear breeder reactor in his backyard garden shed. Ken Silverstein re-creates in brilliant detail the months of David's improbable nuclear quest. His unsanctioned and wholly unsupervised project finally sparked an environmental catastrophe that put his town's forty thousand residents at risk and caused the EPA to shut down his lab and bury it at a radioactive dumpsite in Utah. 600 10 $a Hahn, David, $d 1976- 650 0 $a Gifted boys $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Problem youth $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Breeder reactors. 610 20 $a Boy Scouts of America. 856 42 $z Publisher description $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random051/2003054811.html 941 $a 7 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20200508013443.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418113746.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20160202033316.0 952 $l EBPE325 $d 20150227021859.0 952 $l BXPC851 $d 20110212010708.0 952 $l 41SX706 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l HRPE845 $d 20090701080000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8644EC842B0911DEBA4F1C08A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IWBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search