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Ang mga nuclear reactor ay hindi mga piraso ng kagamitan na nakikita mo araw-araw
Ang mga ito ay dinisenyo upang makabuo ng thermal energy na maaaring magamit para sa sarili nitong kapakanan o pag-convert
sa enerhiya ng makina, at karamihan sa mga oras sa elektrikal na enerhiya.
Gumagana ang mga ito sa pamamagitan ng pagpapanatili ng isang kadena reaksyon na gumagawa ng isang matatag na daloy ng mga neutrons, nabuo
sa pamamagitan ng pagbaba ng mabibigat na nuclei, ang pinaka-karaniwang kung saan ay uranium-235 na gumagawa ng
thermal init.
Maraming mga iba't ibang uri ng reaktor ng nuclear power, ngunit tiyak na hindi ka maaaring
mamili para sa isang online.
Gayunpaman, may isang bata na determinado na makuha ang kanyang mga kamay sa reaktor para sa kanyang sarili.
Maligayang pagdating sa episode na ito ng Ang Infographics Show: Ang Boy Scout Sino Sinubukan Upang Bumuo ng isang Nuclear
Reactor lol nito ang parehong XD
Imagine pagbukas ng iyong mga kurtina sa kuwarto sa isang araw at pagtingin sa iyong window upang makita
isang kakaibang luntiang glow resonating mula sa malaglag ang iyong kapwa, at pagkatapos ay pagpansin ng pamahalaan

English: 
Nuclear reactors are not pieces of equipment
you come across everyday.
They are designed to produce thermal energy
that can be used for its own sake or converted
into mechanical energy, and most of the time
into electrical energy.
They work by maintaining a chain reaction
producing a steady flow of neutrons, generated
by the fission of heavy nuclei, the most common
of which is uranium-235 that produces the
thermal heat.
There are many different types of nuclear
power reactors, but you certainly can’t
shop for one online.
However, there was one kid who was determined
to get his hands on a reactor for himself.
Welcome to this episode of The Infographics
Show: The Boy Scout Who Tried To Build a Nuclear
Reactor.
Imagine opening your bedroom curtains one
day and looking out of your window to see
a strange green glow resonating from your
neighbor's shed, and then noticing government

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trucks being loaded with barrels marked radioactive
by men dressed in hazmat suits outside your
home.
You might think you had been transported onto
the set of the latest Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster.
But in 1995, for the residents of Golf Manor,
Michigan, this was no made for tv drama.
A young teenage boy had built a nuclear breeder
reactor in his mother's potting shed, a crazy
idea he thought up while working on his Atomic
Energy merit badge in an attempt to earn Eagle
Scout status.
The boy’s name was David Charles Hahn who,
not surprisingly, is sometimes called the
Radioactive Boy Scout or the Nuclear Boy Scout.
So how did teenager David Hahn go from being
an everyday goofy schoolboy to nuclear reactor
developer?
Ken Silverstein is an American journalist
who used to be the Washington editor and blogger
at Harper's Magazine.
He met David in the late 90’s to try and
figure out exactly what happened, by hearing
the story from the proverbial horse’s mouth.
He described David as oddly dispassionate,
though polite, until they began to discuss
his nuclear adventures.

Filipino: 
ang mga trak na puno ng mga barrels na minarkahan ng radioactive ng mga lalaking nakadamit sa hazmat suit sa labas ng iyong
bahay
Maaari mong isipin na ikaw ay inihatid sa hanay ng pinakabagong Hollywood blockbuster ng Sci-Fi.
Ngunit noong 1995, para sa mga residente ng Golf Manor, Michigan, wala itong ginawa para sa drama sa tv.
Isang batang dalagita ang nagtayo ng isang nuclear breeder reactor sa potting shed ng kanyang ina, isang sira
ideya na naisip niya habang nagtatrabaho sa kanyang badge ng Merit ng Atomic Energy sa pagtatangkang kumita ng Eagle
Katayuan ng tagamanman.
Ang pangalan ng batang lalaki ay si David Charles Hahn na, hindi nakakagulat, kung minsan ay tinatawag na
Radioactive Boy Scout o ang Nuclear Boy Scout.
Kaya kung paanong lumayo ang tin-edyer na si David Hahn mula sa pagiging isang araw-araw na maloko na batang lalaki sa reaktor nukleyar
nag-develop?
Si Ken Silverstein ay isang Amerikanong mamamahayag na dating editor ng Washington at blogger
sa Harper's Magazine.
 
Nakilala niya si David sa huling bahagi ng 90 upang subukan at malaman kung ano ang nangyari, sa pamamagitan ng pagdinig
Inilarawan niya si David bilang kakaibang kalayaan, bagaman polite, hanggang magsimula silang talakayin
ang kanyang mga pakikipagsapalaran sa nuclear.

Filipino: 
Pagkatapos, sa loob ng limang oras, naging masigasig si David habang nakikipag-usap siya tungkol sa pagtatrabaho sa kanyang likod-bahay
laboratoryo
Ipinaliwanag niya sa Silverstein na gumamit siya ng mga filter ng kape at ng mga garapon ng karne upang mahawakan ang mga nakamamatay na sangkap
nagbigay ako ng kalahati
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

English: 
Then, for five hours, David became enthused
as he talked about working in his backyard
laboratory.
He explained to Silverstein that he used coffee
filters and pickle jars to handle deadly substances
such as radium and nitric acid whilst working
on developing his reactor.
David was a shy teenager, and so had only
confided in a few friends about his crazy
and ambitious project, but never allowed anyone
to witness his experiments.
He said to Silverstein “I was very emotional
as a kid and those experiments gave me a way
to get away from that.
They gave me some respect.”
As David became more and more preoccupied
with science, he had less and less time for
friends, though during his high school years,
he did have a girlfriend, Heather Beaudette.
Heather was three years younger than David,
and she says he was sweet and caring, but
not always the perfect date.
Heather’s mom described David this way:
“He was a nice kid and always presentable,
but we had to tell him not to talk to anybody.
He could eat and drink but, for God’s sake,
don’t talk to the guests about the food’s
chemical composition.”
But how did David advance from being this
somewhat geeky experimenting student, to a

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boy with a reactor?
David was a boy scout, and Eagle Scouts must
earn 21 merit badges.
11 are mandatory, such as First Aid and Citizenship
in the Community.
The final 10 are optional, and scouts can
choose from dozens of choices ranging from
American Business to Woodwork.
Of course, David chose to specialize and earn
a merit badge in Atomic Energy.
He was awarded his Atomic Energy merit badge
on May 10, 1991, five months shy of his fifteenth
birthday.
To earn the badge, David visited a hospital
radiology unit to learn about the medical
uses of radioisotopes, he made a drawing showing
how nuclear fission occurs, but most importantly,
David built a model reactor using simple household
apparati including a juice can, coat hangers,
soda straws, matches, and rubber bands.
The scouts were impressed, but David had far
greater ambitions.
He got to work with writing as many as 20
letters a day, pretending to be a physics
instructor at Chippewa Valley High School.
This budding young entrepreneur approached
groups listed in his merit-badge pamphlet,

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such as the DOE, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC), the American Nuclear Society, the Edison
Electric Institute, and the Atomic Industrial
Forum, the nuclear-power industry’s trade
group.
He obtained all sorts of information.
The NRC was by far the most helpful and David
managed to engage the agency’s director
of isotope production and distribution, Donald
Erb.
Erb provided tips on isolating certain radioactive
elements.
He gave a list of isotopes that can sustain
a chain reaction, and imparted a piece of
information that would soon prove to be vital
to David’s plans: “Nothing produces neutrons,
as well as beryllium.”
The NRC had now given David all the information
he required to build a reactor, and he just
needed to source the raw materials.
He typed up a shopping list of items that
contained very small amounts of the 14 radioactive
isotopes required for the first step.
Americium-241, he discovered, could be found
in smoke detectors; radium-226, in antique

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luminous dial clocks; uranium-238 and minute
quantities of uranium-235, in a black ore
called pitchblende; and thorium-232, in Coleman-style
gas lanterns.
David created a neutron gun and was ready
to irradiate.
He thought that uranium-235, which is used
in atomic weapons, would provide the “biggest
reaction.”
But getting your hands on uranium is no simple
task.
He hunted hundreds of miles of upper Michigan
looking for “hot rocks” with his Geiger
counter, but all he could find was a quarter
trunkload of pitchblende, a radioactive, uranium-rich
mineral, on the shores of Lake Huron.
He also posed as a professor again, buying
materials for a nuclear-research laboratory.
He obtained a few samples but not enough.
He eventually decided to switch from uranium
and instead hunt down some thorium-232 which,
when bombarded with neutrons, produces uranium-233.
David knew, from his merit-badge boy scout
pamphlet, that the mantle used in commercial
gas lanterns is coated with a compound containing
thorium-232.

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He bought thousands of lantern mantles from
surplus stores and, using a blowtorch, reduced
them into a pile of ash, so he could extract
the thorium-232.
Next David needed Radium.
He knew Radium was used in the paint on the
faces of clocks, automobiles, and airplane
instrument panels until the late 1960’s.
So he began visiting junkyards and antique
stores in search of radium-coated dashboard
panels or clocks.
Once he had enough, David secured a sample
of barium sulfate from the X-ray ward at a
local hospital, and used it to concentrate
the radium.
Now 17, he’d made significant progress,
and David planned to build a model breeder
reactor.
But he needed at least 30 pounds of enriched
uranium to sustain a chain reaction.
He was determined to get as far as he could
by trying to get his various radioisotopes
to interact with one another.
David said, “No matter what happened there
would be something changing into something.
Some kind of action going on there.”
He monitored his mini reactor at the Golf
Manor laboratory with his Geiger counter.
“The level of radiation after a few weeks
was far greater than it was at the time of
assembly.

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English: 
I know I transformed some radioactive materials.
Even though there was no critical pile, I
know that some of the reactions that go on
in a breeder reactor went on to a minute extent.”
He said.
It was 2:40 am on August 31, 1994, when the
Clinton Township police responded to a call
concerning a young man who had been spotted
in a residential neighborhood, apparently
stealing tires from a car.
When they caught up with David, they discovered
over fifty foil-wrapped cubes of mysterious
gray powder in the truck of his car, small
disks and cylindrical metal objects, lantern
mantles, mercury switches, a clock face, ores,
fireworks, vacuum tubes, and assorted chemicals
and acids.
The police must have been baffled!
They called in the Michigan State Police Bomb
Squad to examine David’s car and the State
Department of Public Health or DPH, to supply
radiological assistance.
State radiological experts found aluminum
pie pans, jars of acids, Pyrex cups, milk

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crates, and other materials strewn about in
David’s makeshift shed laboratory, much
of it contaminated with excessive levels of
radioactive material, especially americium-241
and thorium-232.
How high, you’re wondering?
A vegetable can, for example, registered at
50,000 counts per minute, which is about 1,000
times higher than normal levels of background
radiation.
After determining that no radioactive materials
had leaked outside the shed, state authorities
sealed it and petitioned the federal government
for help.
Unfortunately David went into a serious depression
after his laboratory was shut down.
Years of painstaking work had been thrown
in the garbage or buried deep underground.
Students at Chippewa Valley had taken to calling
him “Radioactive Boy,” and when his girlfriend,
Heather, sent David Valentine’s balloons
at his high school, they were seized by the
principal, who apparently feared they had
been inflated with chemical gases David needed
to continue his experiments.
David had hoped to pursue a career as a nuclear
specialist but he ended up enlisting in the
Navy.

English: 
EPA scientists believe his life expectancy
may have been greatly shortened by his exposure
to radioactivity, particularly since he spent
large amounts of time in the small, enclosed
shed with large amounts of radioactive material.
David died on Tuesday, September 27, 2016,
at the age of 39.
His father confirmed that the cause of death
was not from radiation exposure, but alcohol
poisoning.

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So, do you know other crazy stories of young
scientists creating their own labs and experiments?
Let us know in the comments!
Also, be sure to check out our other video
called Atomic Bomb vs Hydrogen Bomb!
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