Radioactive Boy Book Report

Even before the outbreak of War, the United States was concerned with a fascist regime in Europe researching in nuclear weapons. In retaliation, the United States began to fund an atomic weapon development program which became known as “The Manhattan Project” led by J. Robert Oppenheimer. Over the next several years, the Manhattan project started obtaining key materials such as Uranium-235 and Plutonium and testing prototypes until they reached a working model (Coroner).

The book “Radioactive Boy Scout” is a true story about a boy named David Hahn that attended a Michigan high school. His goal was to set out and build a fast breeder reactor in his garden shed. He educated himself in these things by reading popular mechanics and the golden book of chemistry experiments. Whatever he could not get from laboratory suppliers, universities, hospitals, and nuclear agencies, he made himself. David collected household smoke detectors and extracted americium-24. He also got assembled gas mantle covers and pulverized them to get radioactive thorium and took the Geiger counter in to an antique shop where he found a clock with a phial of radium paint left in it. With a little bit of things he had

In the "Radioactive Boy Scout" the author tells us about David Hahn, a teenage boy who tries to build a homemade breeder nuclear reactor in 1994, at the age of 17. He was a scout in the Boy Scouts of America, and secretly conducted experiments in a backyard shed at his mother 's house in Clinton Township, Michigan. Even though the radioactivity given off by his reactor never reached a dangerous state, when he was stopped by the police for another reason they found materials in his vehicle that were dangerous. Ten months later, his mother 's property was cleaned up by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Matt and I were put into a vault with lots of people who also lived in Boston with us. Matt and I got chosen as runners. The runner's job was to find caps, clothing, food and purified water. We got missions and other jobs from the overseer and other people who needed help. When we were looking for supplies and doing missions we came across two dogs, one that was named Dogmeat and another dog that we named Sparky. Matt and I walk through two big hills and saw lots of big things that we called deathclaws. Deathclaws are really big ugly things that have really big claws. It took a long time to kill these guys because they are really strong and powerful. Good thing we had a mini nuke and a really nice rocket launcher called a fatman.

When this happens, it can be extremely dangerous. David Hahn, it seemed, thought nothing of this. He thought little of the danger obviously. The breeder reactor he had set up proved this. A breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that creates material at a quicker speed than it uses another material. To help in doing this and to gather information he needed, David posed as a physics professor. This enabled him to get information he needed on the breeder reactor design from experts and the U.S. government. As it turned out, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission proved to be his main source of where his information came

Nuclear research all started when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and the United States entered into World War II. When the United States realized that Germany attempted to build an atomic bomb, Americans began to concentrate on their research about creating an atomic bomb more heavily. President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Manhattan Project, which included a group of top scientists, under General Leslie R. Groves, who worked around the clock to try to develop an atomic bomb within three years (Beyer, Page 15). The Americans and the British combined their efforts to research the development of the bomb and created plants and factories to work in the atomic bomb. They created plants for three separate processes: electromagnetic, gaseous diffusion, and thermal diffusion. These plants helped create the plutonium and uranium 235 needed to manufacture the atomic bomb ("Key Issues: Nuclear Weapons: History: Pre Cold War: Manhattan Project.", Web). The secrecy of the Manhattan Project was essential in order to develop the atomic bombs to end World War II.

During the early 1940s President Franklin D. Roosevelt commissioned “the Manhattan Engineer District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers” to start the creation of the United States wartime atomic bombs (Findlay & Hevly, 2011, p. XI). Dubbed the Manhattan Project, the area of Hanford, Washington became the new plutonium factory after the federal government acquired “670-square-mile reservation” (Findlay & Hevly, 2011, p. XI). This reservation was made up of private land holdings, but became condemned for the government to start its build. Near the mid-1940s the first reactor, Hanford’s B, started producing plutonium, then was shortly followed by three more plutonium reactors (Findlay & Hevly, 2011, p. XI). In order to keep the secrecy of the

In the present day, society depends on Science greatly; it supplies jobs, provides technology capable of saving lives, and furthers our society in many positive ways. However, society often misses the negative aspects of Science. Vonnegut identifies many problems with the general perspective on Science in Cat's Cradle,

H.G. Wells predicted the project happening in a book long before the project had started. In the book it showed the power and how nuclear weapons will end society and it is extremely dangerous most people thought H.G. wells did not predict it he inspired the scientist to make

Scientists are primarily represented by Felix Hoenikker, a childish man who cares about nothing but his experiments. His lab is full of toys, and he doesn’t seem to care about how his games affect the people around him. Hoenikker created a weapon which had the capability to kill tens of thousands in the blink of an eye. Something which could change the world and destroy it. Dr. Hoenikker only cares about his Science.

Wheelers said that when kids are little they love science and find all aspects of it extremely fascinating, however, when many students get to middle school and high school, then the science information gets drilled out in lectures and tests all while students are competing against one another to get the best grade.

Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science. While working on his Atomic Energy badge for the Boy Scouts, David 's obsessive attention turned to nuclear energy. Not worried about being safe and taking the pre-cautions, he plunged into a new project: building a nuclear breeder reactor in his backyard garden shed. In the Radioactive Boy Scout, veteran journalist Ken Silverstein recreates- in brilliant detail-the months of David 's improbable nuclear quest. Acting as a physics professor, David solicited information on reactor design from the United States government and from industry experts. Shopping antiques stores and looking through junkyards for old-fashioned smoke

While reading Bomb by Steve Sheinkin I looked at the text through a critical lenses. With the critical lenses, I specifically looked with four topics: perspective, messages, identities, and ideology. Out of the four critical response lenses I looked at the text through the one that stood out to me the most, perspective.

Raw, real, important and an unflinching story, Some Boys starts after the rape occurs. It's actually been a bit since the rape - in days, not months or something. Grace is suffering from the harassment of her peers - and not just Zac, the boy who raped her. Her friends all think she was flirting with Zac at the party, that she was totally into Zac, and that her cries of rape are fake. The whole town, it seems, wants nothing to do with her, but wants everything to do with her downfall. It's not enough for them to ignore her - no, they need to provoke and bully her. Zac is the golden boy, the star lacrosse player, the guy who gets away with everything. And Ian, his best friend and teammate, goes along with everything Zac does. Even though Ian is the one that found Grace that night, bleeding and unconscious.

Hahn’s founding of nuclear fission had created a big change to the world both during and after the time he lives. The tremendous implications of this discovery have led to study on possible military developments. Fission products are produced in nuclear weapon explosions, with the amount depending on the type of weapon. The largest source of fission products is from nuclear reactor. Some fission products are also used in industrial inventions and innovations. For example, some ion can react with steel surfaces to form a corrosion resistant layer. In this way, it renders the steel surface passive. In a similar way the release of radio-iodine in a serious power reactor accident could be retarded by adsorption on metal surfaces within the nuclear plant. Furthermore, nuclear fission also takes part in medicine areas. Currently, nuclear fission is not used directly in medicine, however radiation, radioactive isotopes, and scanning devices (X-Rays, CAT scans e.t.c.) that use radiation are. All of these inventions and innovation would not exist without his discovery. Therefore, I feel very thankful for his discovery and the things he have brought up to this