A Swedish man who was arrested after trying to split atoms in his kitchen said he was only doing it as a hobby.
Richard Handl told The Associated Press that he had the radioactive elements radium, americium and uranium in his apartment in southern Sweden when police showed up and arrested him on charges of unauthorized possession of nuclear material.
The 31-year-old Handl said he had tried for months to set up a nuclear reactor at home and kept a blog about his experiments, describing how he created a small meltdown on his stove.
Amusing. Though I remember a story about an American performing fusion in his house.
So he has second thoughts and asks advice from Sweden's Radiation Authority. Couldn't an answer suffice, rather than calling the police?
The Swedes should count themselves lucky. Most of the time people are mixing chemicals in their kitchen over here, it's meth...
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