After a man called the Swedish Radiation Authority and asked them if it was legal to build a nuclear reactor in one’s own home, authorities got suspicious and started investigating. As it turns out, in the western Sweden city of Angelholm, a 31-year-old man was building a nuclear reactor in his own home out of parts he ordered online and a standard fire detector. For $950, this guy was able to begin to build his own nuclear reactor, all the while blogging about his adventures in nuclear power.
“When they came they had the police with them. I have had a Geiger counter and have not detected a problem with radiation,” the 31-year-old told local newspaper Helsingborgs Dagblad. Unfortunately for the man, his nuclear reactor was just for fun, not for power generation. “To get it to generate electricity you would need a turbine and a generator and that is very difficult to build yourself.”
Right, because building the nuclear reactor is the EASY part! Either way, the police took the radioactive materials and equipment, and released the man because, apparently, there was nothing they could hold him on since he got his parts legally. Still, the brush with the law was enough; the man has decided to focus his life-long interest in nuclear power towards the theoretical aspects from now on, not the practical.
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