00:00Did you know that a 17-year-old Boy Scout built a nuclear reactor in his backyard shed?
00:05In 1994, David Hahn was just trying to earn his Atomic Energy Merit Badge in Clinton Township, Michigan.
00:12What started as collecting old smoke detectors and camping lanterns quickly turned into something far more dangerous.
00:19He extracted a Mauritium 241 from smoke detectors using acid and coffee filters, then scraped radium from antique clock faces.
00:28Night after night, he worked in his shed, building a homemade centrifuge to enrich uranium.
00:34His Geiger counter readings climbed higher each day as radiation levels spiked around him.
00:39Neighbors began reporting an eerie blue-green glow coming from his shed after dark.
00:44When the EPA finally discovered his experiment, radiation levels were 1,000 times normal background levels.
00:51His entire shed became a super-fun cleanup site, requiring hazmat teams in full protective suits.
00:58David's face was covered in lesions, his hair falling out, his body slowly poisoning itself.
01:03This teenage nuclear experiment contaminated his entire neighborhood and changed federal oversight of radioactive materials forever.
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