RE: [cdn-nucl-l] What's required for an Atomic Energy boy scout patch...

["Brown, Morgan" <brownmj@aecl.ca>]

Is the story true?  Who knows?

There are 19 references on Yahoo! when I searched for ["David Hahn"
radioactive scout].  Most appear to be reprints of the story, including
Reader's Digest
http://www.readersdigest.ca/mag/1999/05/icrd.html?printer_version=1

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists carried a version of this story, at:
http://www.bullatomsci.org/issues/1999/jf99/jf99bulletins.html

Repetition of a story does not mean it's true.  It could be an urban myth
for all we know, even though the Bull of Atom Scientists link does give it a
slightly higher status.  I briefly searched the EPA or NRC sites, but didn't
find any clues.

What about you physicists out there - is the article plausible?  

cheers

Morgan


-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Gordon McLean [mailto:mclean@ecf.utoronto.ca]
Sent: Monday April 16, 2001 9:51 PM
To: cdn-nucl-l@informer2.cis.McMaster.CA
Subject: [cdn-nucl-l] What's required for an Atomic Energy boy scout
patch...


Check this out from http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html.
Do you think it's true???

	Adam

What happened when a teenager tried a dangerous experiment in his back
yard

Tale of the Radioactive Boy Scout.

FROM HARPER'S MAGAZINE BY KEN SILVERSTEIN