Got to love this kind of stories: Too bad he self-denounced; now he has no choice but take a forced vacation.
I don't think "trying to split atoms in his kitchen" is in in the Swedish criminal code. Was he actually arrested? What was he charged with? Has he gone to trial?
Very much, except this guy seems much less competent. It seems that Handl may have been partly inspired by Hahn: http://richardsreactor.blogspot.com/2011/05/110520-im-not-first_1464.html
Heh - I used to have all of that stuff sitting around the shop. Among other things just as bad if not worse. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! He should have gone after some polonium 210 (extract that from cigarette tobacco) and thorium (from old - fashioned lantern mantles) as well! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Uh, 'scuse me, but does anybody here have any serious idea as to what it takes to split atoms? My grandfather worked for Allis-Chalmers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, in which capacity he manufactured wire windings for the diesel-electric sets used to power destroyer escorts (UKers: "Destroyer Escorts" is American for "frigates"). At one point, he and his crewmates were tasked at providing really weird windings involving some kind of metal they'd never worked with before. I really don't think anyone in my family realized what had happened until I'd read that Allis-Chalmers had been tasked with the windings for the isotope-separating centrifuges for the Uranium Hexafluoride, the metal for which windings just so happened to constitute a major proportion of the silver supply of the United States Treasury. Kitchen nukes? Don't stink so! *** Even weirder story: There was once a German submarine named U-234 which loaded a secret cargo, as well as a couple of Japanese officers. When the German sailors saw that the secret cargo containers were labeled "U-235", they all chuckled and said "They can't even get the name of our ship right!". Eventually, Germany surrendered before U-234 got anywhere near Japan. So, that means the secret cargo aboard U-234 never got to Japan, right? WRONG! The U-235 aboard U-234 was, after much processing at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, using the machinery my grandfather helped build in Milwaukee, was responsibly forwarded to the Empire of Japan by the USA by means of an air delivery aircraft known to history as "Enola Gay". *** Kitchen nukes? I don't think so.
A nuclear reaction is not as hard as a weapons-grade explosion. It can actually happen naturally(extremely rare)
