[CollegeRepublican]

I remember reading this article a couple of years ago on here and being amazed. Now I think this guy is just an idiot. Why not go to college and learn these things instead of breaking the law to build another reactor to put people in danger. He is lucky some Fed doesn’t send him to Guantanamo.

[Pontiac]

From the article linked to in Post # 3.

David held a series of after-school jobs at fast-food joints, grocery stores and furniture warehouses, but work was merely a means of financing his experiments. Never an enthusiastic student, he fell behind in school, scoring poorly on state math and reading tests (he did, however, ace the test in science).

This is the type of individual who wants to learn what he wants to learn and is bored to tears by structured learning.

He is a Edison type of guy. His only problem is what he has decided to toy with is high dangerous and regulated.

One hundred years ago he would have no problems.

[Justa]

People deal with hazardous, even lethal substances on a routine basis. In every case transport, containment, handling and disposal methods have been developed which allows them to be safely used in everyday applications. If he could come up with a simple, cheap and safe design for a small scale reactor he'd have made quite an accomplishment, not to mention one with quite a lucrative future. For all we know he could have been making a low-output proof-of-concept reactor. He's obviously a backyard tinkerer yet in an area no one else goes near. Hence the notoriety.

The 'Home Reactor' was something covered by science and hobby magazines decades ago. Maybe he just believed what he read in Popular Science?

He may be an "idiot" but he's on a good track.