{"id":110642,"date":"2020-07-30T10:02:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T17:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/that-time-a-boy-scout-built-a-nuclear-reactor-out-of-common-household-items"},"modified":"2020-07-30T10:02:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T17:02:42","slug":"that-time-a-boy-scout-built-a-nuclear-reactor-out-of-common-household-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/that-time-a-boy-scout-built-a-nuclear-reactor-out-of-common-household-items","title":{"rendered":"That time a Boy Scout built a nuclear reactor out of common household items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/that-time-a-boy-scout-built-a-nuclear-reactor-out-of-common-household-items.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O,.o!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Imagine looking out your window to see an eerie green glow resonating from your neighbor\u2019s shed. Or seeing government trucks being loaded with barrels marked radioactive by men dressed in hazmat suits outside your home.<\/p>\n<p>The residents of Golf Manor, Michigan, don\u2019t have to imagine it, because in 1995, a young teenage boy built a nuclear breeder reactor in his mother\u2019s potting shed, an idea he came up with while working on his Atomic Energy merit badge in attempt to earn Eagle Scout status.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" type=\"lazy-image\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/that-time-a-boy-scout-built-a-nuclear-reactor-out-of-common-household-items2.jpg\" id=\"b6b88\" class=\"\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"f192d4eb3fa6e97ad9cd869cffcd1e5b\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O,.o! Imagine looking out your window to see an eerie green glow resonating from your neighbor\u2019s shed. Or seeing government trucks being loaded with barrels marked radioactive by men dressed in hazmat suits outside your home. The residents of Golf Manor, Michigan, don\u2019t have to imagine it, because in 1995, a young teenage boy built [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,873,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-nuclear-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}