In his biography The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor (2004), American author and journalist Ken Silverstein chronicles the exploits of David Hahn, a boy scout in suburban Michigan who, at the age of seventeen, sought to build a nuclear reactor in his backyard. The book is an expansion of a Harper's Magazine article published by Silverstein in 1998.#YA