Swede Arrested For Building Nuclear Reactor

An anonymous reader writes "A 31 year old Swedish male was arrested for trying to build a nuclear reactor in his apartment. He got hold of radioactive material thru mail-order purchases and from smoke detectors. Police raided his apartment after he had contacted the Swedish Radiation Authority (Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten) to inquire if it was legal to construct a nuclear reactor at home."

Now, Come On ...

[WrongSizeGlass]

Geez, everyone's a critic. He's just trying to send electricity back onto the grid and he probably couldn't get approval from his landlord to put solar panels on his roof.

What are you in for?

[TehNoobTrumpet]

Prisoner 1: "I raped a bitch and killed her. What're you in for?"
Prisoner 2: "I built a nuclear power plant in my kitchen."

The hard parts

[Anonymous Coward]

Choice quote: "To get it to generate electricity you would need a turbine and a generator and that is very difficult to build yourself".

Yeah, it's not like thhey're nineteenth century steam technology like the redundant safety systems.

Belt buckles, shoelaces and a piece of gum

[Arancaytar]

Who needs radioactive material to build a nuclear reactor? This is clearly no Macgyver.

Re:What are you in for?

[Anonymous Coward]

"And they all moved away from me on the Group "W" bench there."

Re:What are you in for?

[Amouth]

Arlo: "Littering." And they all moved away from me on the bench
there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I
said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand,
and we had a great time...

Re:Government destroys economy

[canajin56]

Keep in mind that you are replying to Reacher Gilt. If his neighbors get irradiated or killed, they can organize a boycott and let the invisible hand of the market take care of it. After being brutally boycotted, nobody else would ever dare try it again. That's why the police are unnecessary. If you get robbed, simply spread the word. People will not do business with the robber, and then he will starve to death. Much cleaner. You can't have the police stop him. See, he has unlimited and inalienable freedom. If you stop a murderer from murdering a child, you have stolen his freedom to murder, his natural and inalienable right. Without government in the way, he would be totally free to do so.

Re:What are you in for?

[Mikkeles]

Prisoner No. 6: "I am not a number!"

Re:Being arrested is no big deal... being CHARGED

[SEWilco]

What's the big deal about being "arrested"? Police (and others) use their power of arrest all the time. The big story will be if he is charged with something.

He won't get a charge. Neutrons don't carry a charge.

Re:The hard parts

[Anonymous Coward]

Why assume he wanted electricity? A subcritical pile makes heat. Heat is energy, heat is expensive. It gets cold in europe in the winter. Stack the pile in your furnace in the winter, unstack it in the summer so it doesn't make heat. Easy peasy. Only real problem is the toxic result of fission. Also libyans might try to steal your pile, so send a HS kid back in time to tell you when you need to wear a bullet proof vest. Easy.

Re:The hard parts

[plover]

We're talking about building a kitchen table nuclear reactor, and your safety concern is that the junk-car turbo might not have been properly operated?

I like your style!

Re:I just put a skylight in my place.

[mikael]

... and glow in the dark.