Teenager Builds a Nuclear Reactor in His Backyard, Exposing Thousands to Radiation

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David didn't have to work very hard. He didn't come up with an overly complicated plan to get the material. No, he just called up some organizations and pretended to be a chemistry professor. He wrote a few letters to some institutes, signed under a false alias, and before he knew it, he had laid his hands on dangerous radioactive materials.