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Title: Atom splitting in my kitchen was a hobby, man tells Swedish police
Post by: bijou on August 03, 2011, 12:02:52 PM

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A Swedish man arrested on charges of unauthorised possession of nuclear material after trying to split atoms in his kitchen says he was only doing it as a hobby.

Richard Handl said he had the radioactive elements radium, americium and uranium in his flat in southern Sweden when the police showed up.

He said on Wednesday he had always been interested in physics and chemistry and "just wanted to see if it was possible to split atoms at home".

Handl kept a blog about his experiments, describing how he created a small meltdown on his stove.  ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/03/atom-splitting-attempt-swedish-kitchen

Title: Re: Atom splitting in my kitchen was a hobby, man tells Swedish police
Post by: BlueStateSaint on August 03, 2011, 12:10:54 PM

What could possibly go wrong? :thatsright: :mental:

 :tongue:

Title: Re: Atom splitting in my kitchen was a hobby, man tells Swedish police
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 03, 2011, 12:56:47 PM

Highly reminiscent of the "Radioactive Boy Scout" story.

 :o

Title: Re: Atom splitting in my kitchen was a hobby, man tells Swedish police
Post by: compaqxp on August 03, 2011, 02:05:03 PM

Cool :)

On another note... http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-A-Fusion-Reactor/

Title: Re: Atom splitting in my kitchen was a hobby, man tells Swedish police
Post by: Airwolf on August 04, 2011, 10:17:24 AM

I guess even Sweden has rednecks.

Title: Re: Atom splitting in my kitchen was a hobby, man tells Swedish police
Post by: NHSparky on August 04, 2011, 10:42:27 AM

And all alpha-emitters.  Nice goin, asshat!  Throw in some Thorium there and you've got yourself a real cooker!

Seriously, what makes these clowns think that they can just throw together a bunch of radioactive shit and make a reactor?

Title: Re: Atom splitting in my kitchen was a hobby, man tells Swedish police
Post by: Chris_ on August 04, 2011, 10:59:02 AM

Quote from: Airwolf on August 04, 2011, 10:17:24 AM

I guess even Sweden has rednecks.

Of course Sweden has rednecks.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1ThSi1wbqU[/youtube]

Title: Re: Atom splitting in my kitchen was a hobby, man tells Swedish police
Post by: FreeBorn on August 04, 2011, 11:26:56 AM

Rut roh! I should maybe knock off working on my Heath Kit lunar tractor beam in a diabolical bid to yank the moon down and make it roll south from the Oregon/Kalifornica border all the way through Tijuana, crushing everything Libtard in sight. Bwa ha ha ha! Drat! I really was looking forward to that too.

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Title: Re: Atom splitting in my kitchen was a hobby, man tells Swedish police
Post by: JohnnyReb on August 04, 2011, 03:39:32 PM

I used to split the Adams in grammar school. Boy, there was a lot of energy in those suckers.