David Hahn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

David Hahn

United States marine

Date of Birth: 30-Oct-1976

Place of Birth: Commerce Township, Michigan, United States

Date of Death: 27-Sep-2016

Profession: physicist, inventor, mariner

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

David Charles Hahn (October 30, 1976 – September 27, 2016) sometimes called the "Radioactive Boy Scout" or the "Nuclear Boy Scout", was an American who attempted to build a homemade neutron source at the age of 17. A scout in the Boy Scouts of America, Hahn conducted his experiments in secret in a backyard shed at his mother's house in Commerce Township, Michigan.
While he never actually managed to build a reactor (what he built was a neutron source), Hahn attracted the attention of local police when he was stopped on another matter and they found material in his vehicle that troubled them, and he warned that it was radioactive.
His mother's property was cleaned up by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ten months later as a Superfund cleanup site.
Hahn attained Eagle Scout rank shortly after his lab was dismantled.While the incident was not widely publicized initially, it became better known following a 1998 Harper's article by journalist Ken Silverstein.
Hahn was also the subject of Silverstein's 2004 book The Radioactive Boy Scout.
As an adult, Hahn served in the U.S.
Navy and Marines.
He was subsequently treated for mental illness, and his death at age 39 was related to drug and alcohol use.