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Published: Jan. 28, 2019, 6 a.m.

Teenagers nowadays. No respect for their elders. I mean, as teens in our day we were walking uphill (both ways) to school in the snow. We didn\u2019t have cellphones, we had pagers. If we needed a nuclear reactor, we built it in our backyard! Well, not all of us \u2013 but this week\u2019s subject certainly tried. David Hahn was just another suburban kid, up until he MacGyver\u2019d up a breeder reactor in his mom\u2019s shed using not much more than a bunch of smoke detectors and old clocks. This week we dive into the how, where, and why of David Hahn \u2013 affectionately known as the Nuclear Boy Scout. Plus, we learn why Conspiracy Bot has a thing for Wheel of Fortune (hint: it\u2019s the repartee), we learn how many smoke detectors you can buy without raising an eyebrow (hint: it\u2019s a lot), and for some reason C-Bot actually helped with this week\u2019s show (hint: it involves homemade nuclear power). All of that and more on the podcast that\u2019s never built a nuclear reactor, but that definitely reacts nuclearly (is that a word?) on occasion \u2013 Hysteria 51.

Special thanks to this week\u2019s research sources:
Research Assistant \u2013 Raymond Walden IV

Books:
The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor by Ken Silverstein

Video:
The Nuclear Boy Scout (2003) \u2013documentary by Bindu Mathur
The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij1ohDmme3s

Websites:
CS Monitor - https://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0316/p16s03-bogn.html
Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
The Daily Mail - https://dailym.ai/2HvWXyH
Harper's Magazine - https://harpers.org/archive/1998/11/the-radioactive-boy-scout/
Fox News - https://www.foxnews.com/story/radioactive-boy-scout-charged-in-smoke-detector-theft
FBI - https://vault.fbi.gov/david-hahn/David%20Hahn%20Part%2001%20of%2001/view
ARS Technica - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/radioactive-boy-scout-died-of-alcohol-poisoning-not-radiation-father-says/
Dangerous Laboratories - https://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html
The News Stack - https://thenewstack.io/memories-life-radioactive-boy-scout/
Tributes - http://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/David-Charles-Hahn-103989982
The Boy Scouts of America \u2013\xa0https://www.scouting.org/
Mysterious Universe \u2013\xa0https://bit.ly/2sP25DW
Homeland Security News Wire \u2013\xa0http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/no-boy-scout-cannot-build-backyard-nuclear-reactor

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