As a hobby Swede splits atomic nuclei

The guy brought in his own nuclear reactor kuhne



Each person has his hobbies: someone engaged in sports, others write articles, others read books, fourth bred fish, and who then, as a citizen of Sweden, in his spare time likes to split the atom.

Curious Swede six months ago decided to build in his kitchen a small nuclear reactor, with all its activities a man covered in detail in his blog. He even got hold of a radioactive substance, of the order online, and the rest took out conventional fire sensor. In organizing home laboratory nuclear amateur spent very little money - about $ 950.



As with any law-abiding citizen, the Swede once decided to find out the legal status of their experiences and appealed to the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority (Swedish Radiation Safety Authority), explaining that it is not contemplating anything wrong, but simply wants to experiment with nuclear reactions.

Officials have listened carefully to his message (a message sent by e-mail) and promised to send experts to measure background radiation in his apartment. Representatives of the management really soon showed up to his house, but accompanied by the police, who, having found a man in the kitchen samples of uranium, radium, americium and immediately sent him to the police station for further investigation.

By the way, the radiation background in the kitchen was quite usual - the experimenter collected only the reactor itself, but did not solve the problem with its power supply, so the tests have not begun. The police soon released him on the condition of immediate withdrawal of domestic nuclear reactor and inquisitive Swede has promised to continue to study nuclear physics in theory.

via factroom.ru