The Nuclear Boy Scout

24m
Documentary
7

David Hahn in the mid-nineties was a teenage boy scout working towards his merit badges. One badge in particular, the Atomic Energy Merit Badge, caught his imagination when it required him to make a model of a nuclear reactor out of cotton buds etc. David went further and sought out household sources of the materials he would need to make his reactor. Here he talks us through what he did and the surprising results he got.

Cast

David Hahn
Self

Crew

Bindu Mathur
Director, Producer
Cliff Homow
Editor
Robert Eagle
Executive Producer
Mike Muschamp
Camera Operator
Antoine Olivier
Original Music Composer
Mike Hoyland
Scientific Consultant
Fred M. Niell
Scientific Consultant
David Briggs
Researcher

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