Legal
Information on experiment legality, precedent, and incidents. Focus on USA home experimentation.
Contents
Incidents
Incidents that evoked law enforcement response.
David Hahn
Country: USA
aka "Radioactive Boy Scout"
- "It seems he hadn't broken any laws. The laws were designed for private institutions, not private individuals"
Result: superfund site.
Richard's reactor
Country: Sweeden
He tried to recreate David's project. Notably he posted a picture of his stove covered in radioactive debris after a mixture exploded
Result: Jail time / fines?
Ben Krasnow
Country: USA
NRC visit after posting details about his CT scanner online. Sounds like they worked with him to get it certified compliant by adding shielding.
Fusor community
Lots of people seem to build small home reactors without issue.
Commercial isotopes
Spectrum Techniques has some info on exempt sources, including NRC links
Why is Curie limit different for different isotopes?
