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posted by martyb on Tuesday April 25 2017, @08:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the alarm-ing dept.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/radioactive-boy-scout-regularly-visited-by-fbi-for-a-decade-father-says/

David Charles Hahn, who was nicknamed the “Radioactive Boy Scout,” received regular visits from the FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] for nearly a decade from 2005 through 2015, Ars has learned.

Hahn, who was profiled by Harper’s Magazine in 1998 for his attempts to build a homemade breeder nuclear reactor in his mother’s backyard shed, passed away late last year in Michigan at the age of 39. Last month, Ars reported that Hahn did not die as a result of radiation poisoning.

Upon his death, we filed numerous Freedom of Information Act requests with various federal agencies, including the FBI. Amongst the documents we received were three FBI reports dating between 2007 and 2010. They detail three separate instances when people reported to law enforcement that they believed that Hahn may be trying to restart his nuclear activities. When local and federal authorities investigated, they found no such evidence.


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  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Wednesday April 26 2017, @01:45AM

    by driverless (4770) on Wednesday April 26 2017, @01:45AM (#499761)

    He had serious, lifelong mental health problems that predated the "radioactive boy scout" thing. It's quite reasonable that people were concerned about what he would get up to next, and asked the FBI to keep an eye on him.

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