Richard Handl, 31, was arrested
in southern Sweden in July after a raid on his home. He had been trying
for months to set up a nuclear reactor in his kitchen, but became
alarmed when a brew of americium, tritium and beryllium created a
nuclear meltdown on his stove. Only then, he said, did it occur to him
to ask the country's Radiation Authority if what he was doing was legal,
and the subsequent police raid answered that question. No dangerous
radiation level was detected, but Handl still faces fines and a maximum
two-year prison sentence for unauthorized possession of nuclear
materials. [MSNBC-AP, 8-3-2011; The Local (Stockholm), 8-2-2011]
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