[Cooter]

The report does verify part of the author's story. The kid may not have had a working reactor in that shed, but whatever was in there was a little hotter than stolen tires.

[cinFLA]

The report does verify part of the author's story. The kid may not have had a working reactor in that shed, but whatever was in there was a little hotter than stolen tires.

Sure. He had 'collected' amounts of material from smoke detectors, clock dials, etc.

As I had posted from the Harper's story, the police found a toolbox in his trunk and he said it was radioactive. Fearing a bomb, they called in everyone. They then searched his shed and found all the waste materials. Radioactive, yes! But nothing you can't find or buy.

[cinFLA]

"How does a teenager get thorium dioxide ash and uranium, among other chemicals? Hahn extracted most of them from household items, such as smoke detectors and lantern mantles. The tiny bit of uranium ore he bought from a Czech mineral supply company over the Internet."