Swede Arrested For Building Nuclear Reactor 410
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."
Being arrested is no big deal... being CHARGED is. (Score:2, Informative)
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.
headline != article content (Score:5, Informative)
he was questioned by the police because he apparently violated some Swedish nuclear material laws.
the story in short:
- he invested $950
- he bought radioactive material and dismantled one domestic fire alarm
- he blogged about his expirements
- he asked the Swedish authorities if it is allowed to build a nuclear reactor
- some official accompanied by police offices visited his flat and found no radiation problem
- he was questioned at a police stations and was afterwards released
- all the nuclear stuff was confiscated
another attempt (Score:5, Informative)
This kid [wikipedia.org] tried (badly, apparently) to do the same in the US a while back. I lived only a couple of streets over, but had left the area a dozen years before his attempt. I think I delivered newspapers to his house.
Re:How was this going to work? (Score:3, Informative)
richardsreactor.blogspot.com/
Re:Prisoner 6 (Score:3, Informative)
Prisoner 6: "I recorded a video of police beating the crap out of a teenager for no good reason at a bus stop."
http://neil.fraser.name/news/2010/12/23/ [fraser.name]
http://neil.fraser.name/news/2011/04/28/ [fraser.name]
P.S. There is a good ending to this story: follow the links to the blog of Neil Fraser, a Google engineer who bailed the guy out after he spent seven months in jail, accused of, since video recording police is not illegal... "attempted lynching"....