http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/08/03/international/i083333D22.DTL&tsp=1 http://richardsreactor.blogspot.com/ and off cousre the a pic of the "meltdown" :clap: :lol::lol::lol:
But certainly not the first! There was a boy scout in the USA who did exactly the same thing - perhaps even more successfully. http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html
This article reminds me of the Weird Al movie 'UHF' where the scientist teaches the kids how to make plutonium out of household items. "His recipe for homemade plutonium calls for ingredients at hand: an egg beater, a car battery and a bowl of strawberry Jell-O, put in a microwave for twelve minutes at 8000 degrees, and "leave your house for several hours"."
They should hire this guy before he gets picked up by North Korea or Iran, where stovetop nuclear weapons are the norm. -adrianc
Americurium requires neutron bombarment to make it more potent than the mere alpha emitter that it is (alpha particles being stopped by your skin or piece of paper). You used to be able to buy uranium ore off Amazon but I'm pretty sure it'd require an incredible amount of enrichment before you could even think of using it in any sort of a nuclear reaction. Irradiate your apartment complex and create a lot of contamination to clean up sure (pending you purchased enough ore). Same with radium. If he really thought he could just dump material from a smoke detector into a container with old radium paint and uranium ore while heating it hoping it would go critical without any containment the dude is a safety hazard to anything alive. Why yes I could probably build my own nuclear reactor, why do you ask? EDIT: Oh jesus fucking christ, I just read his blog and it looks like at best he got a few books from the library but didn't bother reading anything more than "do a then b then c". For every point he has I can think of 4-5 others he is forgetting that make his work inherently unsafe. I'd have this guy's mental state evaluated myself. Anyone who dabbles in anything this dangerous without the slightest care for precaution, personal safety and the safety of others has huge issues.
i can just see how it played out , the cops come to the door sir there is alot a energy coming from this house is there anything we should know about . nah its fine go home officers they leave for five seconds and then hear an explosion . there like oh shit .
The photo of the guy in the link arnoldlayne posted tells you everything you need to know about him. If he couldn't give a shit about about his own face melting because of his tampering he's not really going to care much about causing a mini Three Mile Island is he?
