Radioactive Boy Scout - How Teen David Hahn Built a Nuclear Reactor
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- Опубліковано 26 бер 2018
- Think a teenager can't build a nuclear breeder reactor without getting caught? Think again. David Hahn, aka the Radioactive Boy Scout, was able to easily collect radioactive and highly dangerous materials to experiment with nuclear energy. Just when you think the story can't get crazier, it does.
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Inmate: I’m in for double murder
David: I built a nuclear reactor
Aaannd contaminated an entire town with nuclear waste, thanks mom!
Inmate: *moves a few feet away from David*
danny nyman ha
Lol
Irl doc Brown or Rick Sanchez
-Aren't you a little young to build a nuclear reactor?
-Yes. Yes, I am.
Baby Blue it is do you not get the comment
I was thinking about this sow throughout the entire video
TheCavlry YESSSSSS
Nice reference
Only some will understand
Boy teaches himself chemistry, even synthesizing nitroglycerin:
His Dad: you need to focus on something that is more useful, like getting boy scout badges.
My dude.
Total Boomer attitude towards child rearing! XD
Right!
synthesizing nitroglycerin isn't hard, if you know how to do the nitration process.
@@awli8861 Building a self sustaining space station isn’t hard if you know how to build it
@@ScotchTapeMafia Yep, that's true.
I gotta admit, I admire his ambition, inventiveness, perseverance, and creativity. He is an example of "You can do anything you put your mind to."
Haha david freaking han can. I cant :p
Like melt the brains of everyone in your entire uniform.
well then, build a nuclear reactor
Tragic, he could have been a good scientist and contributed to the world with a little guidance from any of the adults in his life.
They truly failed him .
No shit. Fuck stopping him, how about steering him in the right direction? Toward some safety goggles at least.
Agreed
Or he could have made a TIME MACHINE out of a ...Chevette...
Fix your spacebar
Rylan shut up
The real crime here is how they wasted away not cultivating the potential on David.
Well... you wouldn't want a young man building proton bombs in a laboratory without a hazmat suit.
Cotton Eyed JoeMAMA why the hell would u want to have a kid who doesn’t wear protective gear doing DANGEROUS experiments.....that’s just dumb on so many lvls
Zac Hall That’s why you teach them.
Fucking RETARDS They are
David: _Has such potential in Science_
His Retarded parents: _sends Him to fucking boy scouts_ 😒😒😒😒😒😒😒
Imo it's great that They could have Him no longer because they and people like them don't deserve David
he was a budding scientist. He should of been guided to a safe process. he had so much potential. RIP David
Potential to work at a defense contractor, coming up with lethal weapons to be used on humanity
@@LassieFarm Nah
@@LassieFarm tf
in a parallel universe... there is a great scientist called David Hahn
I really hope so ❤️ poor kid.
Creates nuclear reactor in his backyard
Everyone: 💤
Steals tires
Everyone: 👀👀
jahne Mckinney boomers
Lmao
"Steals" tires. "Steals". It's doesn"t take a genius to understand that stealing things that isn"t yours is wrong...and no, don't use the r/whoosh BS on this... this is a terrible joke...
@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 Exactly. It didn't take geniuses and certainly no adult in this story was one.
Whooosh yes it did go right over your head.
Sometimes I’m worried the government is tracking everything I do but then remember a 14 year old bought uranium from Czechoslovakia and I relax a bit
Yea but it was a long time ago so i'mma still be paranoid
They increased the amount of spying
Penny and Trans xD
it happened in 90s, what happens in 90s, stays in 90s.
David: I made a nuclear reactor
Everyone: that’s insane! No one should have access to uranium
Me: *inches towards the door.
Question: is it illegal to have uranium 235?
9:58 lmao "he wasn't stealing tires, he was just loading a nuclear reactor into his trunk."
I am Davids cousin so I will shed a little light on a few of the inaccuracies of most the documentaries on him. Davids mother was my mothers aunt. My Grandfathers sister. My aunt patty actually suffered from Paranoid schizophrenia which david was later diagnosed with while in the Marine Corps. She had shot herself which she died from the infection. David was actually pretty average in most school subjects with the exception of Science and Chemistry. He was obsessed with the boy scouts becoming one of the few to earn the atomic badge.His end goal was to find a cure for cancer. He actually spent much of his life at our Grandmothers house in Berkley MI. David did not get in much trouble for this incident instead he went on to join the Us Navy and served honorably on the USS Enterprise. While in the navy is when he began to show signs of his disorder as everytime he came home for the holidays he became stranger and stranger. He used to say he knew something and the government was going to kill him. He even provided a video tape to my Grandpa and asked him to hide it. It mysterously dissappeared from his house while David was on active duty. After the Navy David joined the Marine Corps where he was finally placed in a facility and diagnosed with his disorder. He continued being monitored by law enforcement local and federal as he continued his habbits of stealing smoke detectors to extract the materials. David was sadly found dead in a walmart bathroom and the family will miss him. On a side note he was very normal growing up. Also one of the ways David originally found radioactive materials is he had made a detection device when he was a teen.
What was the cause of death?
@@NoName-ud1nj fentanyl and alcohol overdose at 36
Government got rid of him because he knew too much 😢@@NoName-ud1nj
"MOOOOM PHINEAS AND FERB ARE BUILDING A NUCLEAR REACTOR IN THE BACK YARD"
"That's nice Candice"
That's the one
Yes. I approve
@@PinkFlame-bi5us and who the fuck are you?
@@awsomeman93 he isPinkFlame9000, don't ya see
Wait no way is that actually pink flame?! 9000 woah
David sounded like a genius who didn’t receive any guidance for his intelligence. It’s sad what happened to him.
Kid was a genius.
Dr.doofenshmertz
totally agree
I shall be second one
@baby pink youngjae agenda Intelligent people can be naive too. Kids are
As a Eagle, Class of 1973, I admire what David wanted to do..create energy ...he should have had guidance with this project...he and the entire family were fortunate, no one got sick or were injured...Again, the idea and the motivation of David was very admirable...he needed a college professor as a mentor...bless his heart !!
They shouldn’t have made him a criminal, but encouraged him to study in a safe manner. He was a brilliant and talented child, who could have made important discoveries. Truly tragic.
I don’t think they made him a criminal, he was able to serve aboard nuclear submarines in the Navy.
Intelligence is a treated as misdemeanor in the U.S.
creating a frickin 2,400 milisieverts source of radiation that has the fatality rate of 50% without medical treatment doesn’t sound very genius to me
@@recon_laksh742that's because you're very dumb
It could have been worse. He could have been smoking marijuana.
Lmfao
1 marijuana is equal to 10 nuclear reactors I hear.
Eddie Marquez Yes, yes indeed
He just had to build nuclear reactor he could not have been normal and summon Eldridge abominations
Who knows? Maybe he built it while smoking marijuana
David: *Creates a nuclear reactor in his backyard*
Also David: *Hits a pile of red phosphorus with a hammer like a goddamn caveman*
I do that daily, so what is the point?
I think he was probably doing something else and hit the jar by mistake.
This made me laugh 😄😄😄
@Nathan T What on Planet Earth are you talking about!?!?!?!?! He built a freaking NUCLEAR reactor in his backyard!!!!! What do you mean "He didn't really do anything super clever"? How many 15 year olds do you know that can build a nuclear reactor! That's pretty impressive if you ask me!!!! Do you even know the complexity of a nuclear anything? It's pretty complex stuff! And i think the fact that he didn't blow up his whole neighborhood in the process is pretty amazing!!!
@Nathan T you stupid to even understand how radioactive work is hard and i guarantee you never know how chemistry work
Kid deserves all the credit in the world. Unfortunately all the adults in his life weren't competent enough to guide him.
“Mooooooooom! David is building a nuclear reactor in the potting shed!”
if he had the proper guidance he seems like the type who could have made some real breakthroughs, it’s a shame no one saw his raw talent and directed him accordingly.
thats what they said about me but look at me now, addicted to PCP and nitrogen
He is in the marine right now.
His obsession probably develop as a coping mechanism for his parents divorce and lack of attention.
vengeful potato didn’t he get like... arrested though?
@@bloodcards3084 Seems likely my parents got divorced and I have radiation poisoning too
David: "look mom i build a nuclear reactor".
Mom: "thats nice honey".
Mom: * Worriedly laugh's and cracks open some vodka *
Dad smokes and gives him gasoline
I would literally pass out if he said that to me
Peter Wolf this is like dexters laboratory if you have ever seen that show it’s really old lol
Peter Wolf Mom: your doing amazing sweetie
If this kid had been recognized, we might have unlimited power by now.
Real life Tony Stark
But we already have nuclear reactors in bigger scale, the only problem is that theres less nuclear reactors than coal power, its because of the costs. Making nuclear reactors are expensive.
@@myth5306 that and unlike every other form of power generation, nuclear doesn't get massive subsidies from the government, meaning it has to find a way to be profitable with extreme restrictions while all its competitors get massive aid from the government
What’s even sadder is the fact that his mom and her boyfriend were proud of his work ethic and probably thought that he was working on something really fascinating and wonderful… But never to this scale… And they could’ve put a stop to it if they had checked in on him
“Are you too young to be buying radioactive products?”
“Why yes, yes i am.”
That reference was gold 😂
PHINEAS!! YOU'RE SOOO BUSTED
Young isn't the problem. Most of the contamination probably stemmend from his mom, throwing the stuff away. The problem is that safety precautions weren't followed.
You’ve just unlocked so many memories! 😂
Aren’t you a little young to be making a homemade nuclear reactor? Yes, yes we are :)
Ignoring small explosions and chemical spills in their son's room lol
The great lottery gives them a genius kid and they basically neglect him
If you look into David, he clearly has mental issues, and the reactor wasn't a reactor. It was a literal cesspool of nuclear materials shoved into a box. I think David had severe mental trama that he never got over.
@@andrewlong9799 I think he was too smart but had nobody to help him understand what he was doing. He probably spent his entire life hiding behind science since nobody cared about his passions. I mean of course he mixed them all together. It takes an awful lot to actually understand and build a nuclear freaking reactor. I just believe he could've achieved anything with the proper help.
I wouldnt go on this guys word. He just decided thats how it all went down. Its great but hindsight is 20/20 and when you're on the outside and not involved its a lot easier to see the entire picture. Hes very biased and wanting to blame the parents he consistently makes uncorroborated statements and a clear bias against them. Placing all blame in their lack of prevention which in itself immature, petty and ignorant. Be smarter than both this youtuber.
@@alexanderlanderveil2138 He didn't make a reactor. There was absolutely no fission involved with the box, and it had no energy capabilities what so ever.
@@andrewlong9799 im no expert true but smth was going in there since the radiation kept incresing - so smth nuclear in nature was taking place prob some new isotopes were being created from the already present "fuel" - bascially smth was breeding in that radioactive pile - Honestly i dunno what though. So it was either breeding - or continous spread of already radioactive particles or combination of both. Either way - kinda cool but seriously scarry stuff.
This kid was incredibly smart. Such a shame he was never given a platform to show his intelligence
Actually he was…his neighborhood.
“ One day we’re gonna run out of oil “ this kid only wanted to help
Everyone: “Hey aren’t you a bit young to be ordering radioactive material?”
David: “Yes, yes I am”
McDip 😂😂😂😂
Phineas
Everyone: “oh okay, lol.”
Busted
Phinieas and Ferb check
That’s some Tony Stark shit right there
“Built a nuclear reactor out of household items in his backyard when he was 17”
or some crackhead shit
either way hes a genius
Lara Leitte lol
Love how fixated he is on no one asking questions back then. Was a normal thing back in the 80s and early 90s, heck you used to be able to by uranium kits back in the 60s and 70s
“Buy” not “by”.
Also, yeah those were the times when people had creative freedom and could express it however they want. Can be both good and bad depending on how messed you are.
@@theumbrellacorporation1523 ok we get it you're a grammar nazi and a spelling warrior
The sorrow is the kid was a genius and too smart for the adults around him to help him direct it.
It's kind of sad when you think about it. With just a little moderation from superiors, his guy could've changed the world.
Not likely. He was an incredibly unstable person and would most likely violate something.
So true! This narrator keeps shaming the parents for not shutting him down. I think if the parents should be shamed for anything, it would be for failing to encourage and direct him.
Greg Price
Why do you say that? At least I’m not seeing that from this story here?
@@maggiebastolla5430 Because this story only talks about what he did to cause so much damage and what led up to it. Looking further into it you learn more about his character which was very unstable.
Greg Price
Thanks Greg. I should’ve know there’d be much more to the story. But I think this video should have added some of that since it spent so much time shaming the parents and belittling this kid.
Damn I can't believe he really made Chernobyl Pocket Edition just like that.
@tyrone kinard at least he's dead i guess...
Dick
but just until his balls drop off ^^
=))))
@tyrone kinard A nuclear reactor is not a weapon and especially not a weapon of mass destruction. Nuclear reactors do not explode like atomic bombs. Atomic bombs require to be especially built to release as much energy as possible within the shortest time frame which happens to be a rather difficult task and much different from the engineering of reactors.
A side note, Hahn didn't create a nuclear reactor because his radioactive material was not fissile. Meaning the material did not split on neutron collision and release energy. What he created was a neutron source, a pile of radioactive materials releasing neutrons at a steady rate eventually dying to radioactive decay.
He was a genius, purely self taught, off the chain, precious. AND THE NEGLECT of any adult recognizing or fostering & mentoring that GIFT....such a waste. So brilliant.
Near to me there is a site of an old chemical company that was shut down. The clean up took years and several feet of earth was removed and then new dirt was brought in and piled up nearly 20' over the site. About a decade later the town decided it would be a great place to build their new soccer fields.
i guess the cleanup crew did a good job then?
dont really see a problem in that
if they did a good job then that dirt is same as any other dirt you can find i guess
@@electrifiedbathbomb7383 Maybe depends on the half-life of the contaminants? Also, maybe the "years and years ago" EPA didn't have the proper guidelines on how to clean it up effectively to do a "good job"?
I'm not saying it's some horrible thing, but maybe in 20 years I'll say, "Remember that town where all the 25-35 yr olds started growing extra toe nails on their backs and ears on their faces? Turns out an old chemical plant was ONLY 20 ft above the original site and not the 50ft minimum required for safety!!!"
Or maybe I'll be DEAD because 20 yrs from now, all the stuff we are loving to put in our bodies causes cancer that we were not told about. Sort of weird how all the cancers and deformities, etc started happening after the atomic age huh? Almost like, you never know what specific "thing" was emitting something that shot invisible bullets through your DNA!
As long as the companies are protected from lawsuits though, that is what's important. Check out why gasoline is Unleaded instead of Leaded and then check out how long it took for the discovery!
Holy $HIT! The lead in our gasoline thru the exhaust is covering EVERYTHING with lead and its going to kill people and cause brain damage, cancers and everything else!!!! Oil companies: The scientists WE hired to investigate this claim it is misinformation. Leaded gasoline is the cheapest way we can deliver gasoline to vehicles! What, you think you can pay for $0.09 cents PER GALLON!?!?! Let's blame the President! Everyone knows gas prices are set by the President of the United States at 12 AM every day!!!!!
@@sammywise2001 Companies rule this country, and late stage capitalism is killing us, but your comment was spot on, friend. 😂
@@melissylum4106 Thanks Melissylum! I sort of went on a rant but people be dumb. They also like to play into corporate politics and say "everything is fine!" even when they're destroying and killing others just for a few bucks. As long as they toss a few chumps some change (to them), they'll defend em.
BTW... it took about 20 yrs before they took the "Lead" out of the regular Gasoline we use. Crazy that everyone sees "Unleaded Fuel" every single day, yet none of them ask when it use to have Lead and why it isn't just called Gasoline. Even now, seriously, can't we just call it GAS and everyone know they are safe fom LEAD (poisonous... VERY poisonous and damaging to humans and small humans)? Craziness.
In the old days, the government would have hired him.
Mom: David some guys with sunglasses and suits are here. David: excellent, they finally noticed me.
Except look up Galen Winsor. It's all a lie. The government won't hire him because they don't want to use nuclear because the fossil fuel families and whoever don't want nuclear because they can't rule the world like that, it's too easy and free. As for Nagasaki and Hiroshima... do you know that the rate of cancer measured only went up from 217 to 301 out of 100,000? Considering an ACTUAL NUCLEAR BOMB made by the US military at the end of WW2 hardly seems to have caused an effect it's hard to believe that David Hahn's toying around would have done anything.
Why did David drink himself to death? Was it because he thought he hurt all those people? Did he not want to get examined because he himself didn't want to know? Or did he not want the public to know?
What if he didn't have cancer, those people weren't harmed, and everything was just a big lie... and David Hahn was a brilliant child who could have been one of our greatest scientists and we destroyed him -- the very people who would have benefited most -- destroyed his creative spirit, which means we do this to millions of children all the time since this is a societal force (there is nothing particularly unique in the environment of Davids life other than Davids actions)
and why did we destroy him? In order to serve the slavemasters that own us. Mindless and obedient we enslave ourselves. The human race is in a great sadness for this reason... blind to why so sadness comes from their inability to find any way out of their predicament.
And their blindness comes from their inability to see lies from authority.
They kinda did, he was in the marines and navy according to wikipedia, but was diagnosed with mental illness and died of alcohol poisoning and drugs
@@Aro2220 it's not only that bro .
What if he started to make it for some bad guys.
They may hire him and say we are government keep it secret we pay you and he would have gladly made it all thinking he's doing for the country and the world.
Operation paperclip
this should be a movie
jonny hall Micheal bay wya
That would be badass
There already is one with a similar plot called "The Manhattan Project" with John Lithgow. He plays a nuclear scientist who mentors a genius high school student played by Chris Collet. Chris decides that for his science fair project, he'll see if he can make a working atomic bomb.
It could be a television show. Oh I almost forgot about Sheldon Cooper.
who's got Bart Layton's number?
Still no adults have stepped in, best line ever
“Or they had partial meltdowns”
Me too... me too.
“This was David freakin Hahn, he was an Eagle Scout”
Rex Gaming_501st that really cracked me up
@Rex Gaming_501st live to fight another day boys, live to fight another day
😂
I died 💀💀💀
If any adult would've seen his potential he could've been something big
*any responsible adult.
I'm not sure that being willing to do things and even having the drive and energy to do things makes you good at anything. Basically I'm not sure he had any potential. He did have drive and effort
Great comment 😁
The whole time all I kept thinking was that kid needs a mentor.
Kim: intresting
This happened in 1993. Hahn was 10 in 1986. There wasn’t anything unusual AT ALL for a kid in the 70s and 80s to have a real science kit with dangerous or even radioactive chemicals, Bunsen burners, real beakers, etc. He built a really remarkable lab for himself. I had a kit like that and loved it. I went on to be very successful in the sciences. It’s really sad that this kid didn’t have any mentors even tho he did have encouragement. Seems like the adults in his life weren’t very present or stable. A really remarkable mind. Weird history you don’t really seem to know much about history in context.
This is so crazy to me that you made a video about this. When I was born, my parents bought the house directly behind his and my mom remembers that day so clearly!
“Guys trust me, I didn’t steel a tire, I was putting a nuclear reactor in my truck”
Police:”oh..........wait”
"Do I look black to you? Really, I'm not stealing. It's a nuclear reactor."
"All right...you're not black...but you're not Indian. Wait, you're white...Hahn...doesn't sound Russian. Are you Russian?"
"What?"
"White kid definately not stealing, but come in, a nuclear reactor? Fuck, maybe you're a mole. What year is this? Has the Soviet Union fallen yet? This nuclear science has gotten me so confused all I know is we're somewhere in the 90s. You got to be a mole kid. That or a black kid in white suburban kid's clothing giving a bullshit story about radioactive material."
@@brandonwainscott7491
Hahn is a german name.
It means rooster.
Steal*
Don’t Censor Hentai grammar nazis
@@OhKnow379 just because he corrected him doesn't mean that he's a grammar nazi
* Survives high levels of radioactivity *
* *Dies of Alcohol poisoning* *
*eats a banana
McDaniel booboobeebee
* salts pasta *
Thanks for spoilers m8.
*Made In USA* plays in the background
He did enlist in the Navy and Marines after though
I think he could have become brilliant if he was given mentor figures to help with safety and direction.
This actually gives me hope for humanity. To me, the worst case scenario for the human species is young people turning into TikTok addicts and destroying their ability to concentrate. David is a driven, determined genius. We need more like him. Yeah I get that radiation is scary but being alive is scary. If you want to experience terrible sickness and have a messy, horrific death, just be born, it'll happen guaranteed.
not really a genius, creating a nuclear reactor at home is like eating tide pods, especially the amount of radiation the reactor was emitting
(50% fatality rate without medical treatment, elevated chances of cancer, radiation sickness)
@@recon_laksh742 Brother he did more with his life than you or I ever will.
@@FiggsNeughton David became a marine and literally died of alcohol poisoning
@@recon_laksh742 I hate to be the one to tell you this brother, but death robs us all of dignity. And being a marine is freaking badass.
_"I am limited by the technology of my time"_ -David Hanh
Ball Shot Ha.
Ball Shot I feel like this is a threat
-Howard stark
That Lazar interview was great
@@br00tality50 to Howard Potts
He earned that badge, because NOBODY knew what the hell he was talking about.
Do you have any IDEA what the hell you're talking about badgeboy
@@mcdanielbooboobeebee9421 *_BITCH huh? You're so confusing .-._*
He definitely was awarded the “glowing Boy Scout” badge.
“Everyone is just winging it” truer words have never been spoken.
I find the saddest part of his story in being, he ended up dying of an overdose combo of alcohol and fentanyl in Sep of 2016, at the age of 39.
Such a waste of such a smart person. He could have done so much with his life.
At the very least, he could have had one hell of an interesting UA-cam channel, if he was still around.
You Tube has been around for over a decade now he could have been taken the opportunity. Most geniuses have an over active brain he probably had bipolar or depression sometimes genius and madness go hand in hand.
Something like cody's lab.... Look for it
Yolanda Baldwin according to wikipedia, following the scandal and his mother’s suicide he became depressed and didn’t really pursue a career on science due to that, shame that he was so smart yet would go to community college and skip most of his classes.
He later enlisted in the navys and wanted to become a nuclear specialist of some sorts, when he was discharged and went back to his town there was a bunch of controversy
A dude called the fbi and claimed that Hahn would solicit prostitutes, was diagnosed schizophrenic and wouldnt take his meds, was a cocaine addict, was trying to build a second reactor and was paranoid of people he claimed “had the ability to 'shock' his genitals with their minds"
Of course I actually dont believe this dudes testimony, and i dont think the fbi actually found anything like that
Its sad to see someone so talented go through so much shit in life when he could have quite literally changed the world
@@hoshghk I agree, thanks for the info.
“Hello and welcome to DavidsGarage, today I will show YOU five easy steps to building ur own nuclear reactor.”
14 years old Kid: builds a nuclear reactor
Me 15 years old: struggles in simple math
u dont need advanced math knowledge to make a nuclear reactor
@@trollfootage839 Let's not forget he barely follows basic safety rules and put himself and others in serious risk.
Maybe you are good in sport instead
these me jokes are getting stale
@@susanna8612 Science > Sport
"Son, if you're going to make destructive materials that are a threat to the safety of others, please do it out of sight and in the basement."
David Hahn...what a resourceful person!
Why do you paint him like a bad guy? The guy was a loose genius
He could killed alot people
Yeah he could have made a nuke by accident
Seems you 2 are missing the point of “loose genius”.
With any oversight from any adults (parents, the people where he sourced materials), it wouldn’t have happened. With any sort of guidance, he would have been on a path to do it legit.
He wasn’t bad. He merely didn’t know proper procedures because he had no guidance or oversight.
the brotherhood of steel doesn't appreciate loose geniuses
If he were a genius, he'd have known better than to create a nuclear reactor in his mother's shed........
gotta give it to the guy, had alot of drive, with proper guidance and schooling he could have been a game changer in our energy crisis.
Or he could have caused a contamination issue. The DIY reactor crowd tends to build their machines first because that's the fun part. Containment, if they have it at all, is an afterthought.
@@josephastier7421
Notice how the original comment says "proper guidance" as in "teach this kid how to properly do it".
He could've been a great scientist. Sadly, he died a little while ago
The energy crisis will never go away is the best business ever
Pbness Jellyness even if that were the case nuclear energy is inefficient at this point there’s no current way to get rid of radioactive waste
Let this be a Lesson if your child shows interest in something and or potential...Guide them. Help them to grow and prosper. the world needs more creators.
Man, that's heartbreaking. Sounds like the kid was a genius with good intentions...but needed WAY more guidance and supervision. Sounds like there were so many red flags.
If he was guided in the right path he would have had such potential.
that or bought off by some oil company. However with his persistence and drive the oil company would have to have had him liquidated..
He worked on a nuclear aircraft carrier in the navy, so thats something. Later died of a fentanyl overdose
Gabe Cirillo that’s so sad but not really surprising, his brain was something else
Yeah or been some evil genius lol
Is that what you got from this
1990s: *builds a nuclear reactor in his mom's backyard.*
2016: *dies of alcohol poisoning.*
Survived very high levels of radioactive isotope poisoning,but alcohol killed him.
Who knows what really happened to him...by that mug shot he looks more as drug addicted than alcoholic....
DavieBoy so... drug addiction :c
@@petrsson No it doesn't!
@@romellohodge6547 Galen Winsor -- it's all a lie.
I have a Atomic Energy Badge when I was in Boy Scouts back in the 90s. I Made it to Eagle Scouts but, I basically Retired from Scouts in early 2000s.
Another lesson from this is always check in on your kids and their activities/interests and put a stop to it if it’s dangerous or getting out of hand as his parents should have in the very first place.
the "kid" took action and dismantled his makeshift reactor as soon as he realized it was dangerous.the so called "adults" waited months before they took action and clean up the site, because they didn't feel responsible.
now tell me who is the one to blame?
Dude They should have hired him.
yeah! :)
Well yes curiosity is one thing but not allowing people to test nuclear reactors by themselfs in a residential are is not a good idea, same for all the scientists who have done, regardless if nobody got hurt the possibility was still high , it is good that he likes science but that does not justify the danger he put others in regardless if he was a smart kid like I said things can easily go wrong
Those experimenys only shoukd be done in controld labs and even there the possibilitynof failure is still present but at least the security measures can stop at least most of the disasters and nlt extend the damage to civilian, smart kid, but pretty irreponsible but again he was a kid, same thing with experiments involving other dabgerous materials
Even if it was not a true nuclear r
He is not evil but for more good that his intention were letting non trained people work with such dangerous elements without the proper security conditions is just awful
I am saying this specifically for the people who say just because something has good intentions we should let it happen anywhere and with anyone despite of the danger to innocent unaware civilians
sure, that's true.
I would not even want to live near an official NPP.
or in france.
unfortunately I live kind of close to belgium, so someday I will get fried when their power plants blow up :-/
@@las10plagas well at least you are not in chernobyl or fukushima thank the flying sphaghetti monster for that xD
"Nerds " : " David , look what happens when we put mentos in a soda bottle."
David : " Hold my beaker ."
Lmao
Nope
Wrath_ Of_Thrawn I guess school is out tomorrow then?
*uranium
"And a few more adults would have to not ask any more questions" That deserves an award, it should be in the Lexicon of every language and culture
This guy is very inspirational ngl
"David built a nuclear reactor out of common household items"
*buys uranium from Czechoslovakia.*
Czech Republic is a different country from Slovakia.
@@songes3058 it wasn't when David ordered the Uranium.
@@sephiroth127 you aren't wrong
@@songes3058 If you´re from Slovakia or Czech republic, SHAME! Jesus, learn about our history first, Czechoslovakia split in Slovak republic and Czech republic 1.1.1993.... approximately two years after David purchased uranium..... Greetings from Slovakia..
You can buy uranium online nowadays, though you probably wouldn't be able to find enriched uranium or anything that hot
This kid was super gifted. If I was apart of a government body that just learned a 16-year-old boy was arrested for successfully creating a nuclear reactor, a self-sustaining one at that, with common household materials, I would have offered to pay for his college degree and would have asked him to be apart of the atomic research department.
This dude was about to be Iron Man
ChumperDumper Yeah, don’t be fooled by this video. It omitted some very important information in this story like the fact that David was Schizophrenic. His “reactor” was made of fire alarm metal, clock paint, tinfoil, and duct tape, and well, how many power plants do you know that run on clock paint? Or how many people do you know that get radiation poisoning from their fire alarm?
Schizophrenia makes the affected person think that something mundane is EXTREMELY important, like making the person think that a pile of garbage is highly radioactive nuclear waste.
This is why his FBI medical records show that he suffered no long term damage (outside of a few burns on his hands) and why he was later diagnosed for and put on medication for Schizophrenia.
Jack Adams Re-read the portion on his Schizophrenia again
Jack Adams Never said it couldn’t be treated. However, his Schizophrenia and medical records mean that none of the boy genius portion is correct. He just thought he had created a working nuclear reactor in a Schizophrenic episode.
Schizophrenia made something mundane like a pile of scrap metal and blankets seem like something important, like a nuclear reactor
Jack Adams It was definitely an overreaction, but remember, the police only reported it as nuclear waste, because David was having a Schizophrenic episode and had thought it to be nuclear waste.
Because the police made an official report on it, the EPA was required to dispose of the reported waste, so they showed up and removed the waste that they were ordered to remove.
You can tell how unnecessary it was, especially when you consult David’s medical records, which show no damage to his health other than the burns he had on his arms. If it were anything close to how this video falsely portrays things, he would definitely have much more wrong with him than minor burns and would be suffering from radiation poisoning.
I completely ignored the dangerous aspects to this story, because ya’ll made it hilarious.
A person like David is an absolute gift to the world and he reminds me very much of when my father was a child. It's heartbreaking he didn't have the right guidance and idiot/neglectful parents.
He almost made Chernobyl Lite
Underrated comment
Good comment 10/10
Yeah, he couldn’t afford the full version.
Hahaha i like
@@dianheart2243 This DLC shit is getting out of hand. It prices the little guys out of participating in building breeder reactors! Goddamnit EA, THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!
He joined the navy after the scandal and was stationed on the USS ENTERPRISE, the first nuclear powered carrier, if that’s not a coincidence I don’t know what it.
Marshmallow erm no not exactly he wanted to join an engineering program but they denied him cuz of his past
Marshmallow that’s not what ken silverstein said 😗✋
Gray Matter 😜
Gray Matter says the guy with a breaking bad username, what have you been up too?? Just kidding 🤪
He also enlisted in the Marines after 4 years in the Navy
The world needs more people like David, focused and dedicated to solving a common problem.
RIP DAVID...
CONTINUE TO INSPIRE
He didnt solve or invent anything
he created a fatal radiation source instead
@@Watcher4111mmm he was 14-15 with no external help? He also was tryinf to make a taning cream right?
Sounds like the entire family deserved a darwin award
Sounds like David was incredibly intelligent and misunderstood.
Misunderstood doesn’t cut it. Highly neglected fits much better.
Just like Uncle Ted. 😔
could've become a leading scientist in renewable energy creation.
His a dumb smart guy
We all know nuclear physics is very complicated and dangerous but despite danger he is eager to understand what's behind knowledge about nuclear reactor
Friend: YOU CAN’T MAKE A GODDAMN NUCLEAR REACTOR AS A TEENAGER
Him: hold my caprisun
Haha
What flavor
Cooper Hearne multivitamin
Thanks for the likes :)
😂
I admire his consistency!
Fact that a kid started this it goes to show how easy it is to make a nuclear reactor or weapon
"This is David Freakin Hahn, he's an eagle scout" 😂
Uno Reverse lol
shit man, eagle scout is really hard to achieve
This is why you don’t leave a Boy Scout, let alone an Eagle Scout, to their own devices
Book: Don’t do this at home
David: makes a nuclear reactor in his backyard
*do
boonk gang whole lotta gang sh*t
Yes
Book: don't do this at home
David: loads red phosphorus into a beaker and smashes it with a hammer with the intention to cause an explosion without protective clothing. Bravo
A+ video!
LOVE IT! He has some real Boy Scout qualities!
I like how both his mom and dad worked for general motors. Welcome to Michigan!
damn it really sucks. he had the brains and the passion and could’ve done
something really great
@@zachwilson4166 If so, he would not have achieved this in the first place
Zach Wilson Then you do it then dumbass
@@zachwilson4166 I do agree building a god damn nuclear reactor is dangerous but still, not everyone could build one themself
@@zachwilson4166 Why are you so mad? Is it because you can't make harnesses atomic energy?
Smh
You dont "take away" something that a kid is good at, you supervise and ensure their safety, Nurture them like good parents.
Unfortunately he didn’t have good parents
I’m from originally South Eastern Michigan.. so when I stumbled upon this video, I had to look up David Hahn.
I am just now learning that I was one of the people he exposed to radiation. I would have been 1 years old at the time of this craziness. Wtaf.
So tell me when you die to see how much your life span was reduced
"They thought he was stealing tires from cars" *nope just a nuclear reactor*
David Hahn:
Strength- 10
Dexterity- 10
Constitution- 14
Wisdom- -2
Charisma- 10
Intelligence- 50
Level 20 Transmutation Wizard
This comment pleases me
Strength
Perception
Edurance
Charisma
Intelligence
Agility
Luck
Patrol Trooper Its DnD not FO fam.
Sal Gitgudovich I think he’s pretty smart, when have you ever seen a kid make a complete nuclear reactor, I get that it was bad and could cause horrible disasters. He’s moms more stupid for throwing nuclear east away
I want to play Dunkin’ Donuts
Shouldn't have arrested him. They should have hired him. Smart lad.
he could of killed so many people
Tangerine-Juice No his guardians would have, it’s not his fault he is not being watched, Jesus what are you 5?
@@TangerineJuice. you are Mega gay
@@starmarinrtur1493 no u
sherm dog no he was dumb
Me: mommy can I buy a wine bottle in my birthday?
Mum: No!! You're underage
Me: but this kid bought uranium and radioactive materials
I seriously think he was a true genius, and he meant no harm to anyone, he just wanted to do what nobody else could do
Father: what are you working on,
Son: the Manhattan Project
Yeah and that one wasn't particularly safe either en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
@@erikhendrych190 Well it was the first, lol. What do you expect? Not like they could call up OSHA and get the drop.
If this kid did this 50 years ago, he would have gotten a Nobel Prize and be praised in the history books.
He did nothing, he planned to make a reactor but never came close to it. He only collected lots of radioactive materials, and got arrested for it
He based his work on Nobel's works.... It's replication. By himself, he would never do it...
@@programmingboy7737
All you've heard is from Ken Silverstein's 2004 book, The Radioactive Boy Scout, mainly used Hahn himself as the source. It is pretty factully exaggerated for narrative value.
This story is pretty distorted. He didn't really have a technical understanding here. He just had mental problems and was obsessed with radioactive materials. It wasn't that "idiot savant with so much potential who just couldn't get a break", he really was a low-functioning mental case and didn't have actual skills.
He really didn't "build" a reactor, just stuck them together, but more for the concept, the idea, than actual effect. It wasn't really purposed and any substantial function is unlikely. His claims of measurable radiation from new synthesized isotopes seems highly dubious.
In the end he'd just collected an impressive amount of radium paint, thorium lantern mantles, and americium smoke detectors, tore it all open and wrapped contents in tinfoil.
The EPA cleanup is also overdramatized. It's unlikely "radiation could be measured from the street" is factual unless he tracked some material out there. He did spread low-level material around a shed that was just a dilapidated shed so they just called it all contaminated, hired a licensed contractor to put on hazmat suits, tear it down and hauled it away as low-level waste, like the tyvek hazmat suits themselves.
His mental problems grew later. Well he graduated from troubled kid with mental problems to dysfunctional adult with mental problems.
copy paste from: www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/9myxel/the_sad_story_of_david_hahn_the_boy_scout_who/e7imab4
FrenZie: No he wouldn’t - just over 50 years ago he’d have probably have been arrested & then ‘invited” to work for the military . . .
Part of the USA reaction to the Russia’s Sputnik victory was a basic free pass for ‘gifted’ American students. Science got a massive boost on the curriculum, and all sorts of inappropriate high school science studies were supported to take place. High school students were experimenting with nuclear, rocket, cancer technology under virtually no supervision, in home, school and otherwise non-specialist facilities. If you don’t believe me check out some 1960’s regional science fair high school project topics.
US friends - guys has it never occurred to you that this is not a good idea? And that there’s a reason why school-aged kids in other countries are kept away from getting involved in such things. . .
@@programmingboy7737 The video is NOT accurate.
I got the atomic energy badge as a scout. I used to live close enough to Three Mile Island that the troop took a tour, which covered most of the requirements.
This story makes me happy as a 90s kid. Everything was about evolving new technology back then. Which gave us cool people like David Hahn.
David Hahn: * could’ve died various times from chemical explosions and radioactive elements *
David Hahn: actually dies of alcohol poisoning
Alcohol is a chemical
@@Master_Ed "chemical explosions"
Not just alcohol poisoning, it was a combination of alcohol, 1st gen allergy pills and Fentanyl. Remember, kids, don't do alcohol, anti-histamine pills and opioid pain meds at once, even if you're a Boy Scout.
Died of an overdose of Fentanyl. A potent synthetic opioid the kill thousands every year only in USA, far more than heroin.
@@suprememasteroftheuniverse so what you're saying is that heroin is more healthier
The real tragedy is that we don't let gifted and passionate people server the public at there full potential... he shouldn't have been stopped but placed in the right environment
Exactly.
Some safety instructions and proper materials and the energy problem would be solved.
@EX'L "placed in the right environment" what you describe isn't the right environment
You're right he was an idiot, in the sense he put others at risk. His family members were idiots to. Unfortunately there aren't any "right environment" where gifted people like him can be placed and that is what I think the problem is.
Yep, your right.
This kid was special, in a good way unlike most people lol
“This is David Freekin Hahn, he’s an Eagle Scout”
Lmfao