(12-10-2024, 07:26 AM)TomK Wrote: It seems to me that this is a perfect example of local government spending time and money on something that doesn't matter other than it appeals to specific groups. How does this benefit anyone living here? No one will build a nuclear power plant on the island or store large amounts of radioactive material because the island's geology is too unstable. Including the military in this changes nothing.
"David Charles Hahn (October 30, 1976 – September 27, 2016), sometimes called the "Radioactive Boy Scout" and the "Nuclear Boy Scout" was an American nuclear radiation enthusiast who built a homemade neutron source at the age of seventeen.
A scout in the Boy Scouts of America, Hahn conducted his experiments in secret in a backyard shed at his mother's house in Commerce Township, Michigan. Hahn's goal was to build and demonstrate a homemade breeder reactor. While he never managed to build a reactor, in August 1994, Hahn's progress attracted the attention of local police when they found concerning material in his vehicle during a stop for a separate matter. When Hahn warned them that the material was radioactive, the police contacted federal authorities, worried that he may have an atomic bomb. His mother's property was cleaned up by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ten months later as a Superfund cleanup site."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
I posted this solely because I love the story. I agree with the premise of your statement.