Richard Clark writes:

On 10 May 2007 12:30:13 -0700, wrote:

This thread is turning into one of those fantasies of the Boy's
magazines of the 1950s: "Build a nuclear reactor on your kitchen
table!"

Well, that's not just a fantasy, I'm afraid. See the Tale of the
Radioactive Boy Scout: http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html

I also used to have a picture of Otto Hahn's lab setup when he first
split the atom in 1938. It really looked like a few simple instruments
arranged on a kitchen table.

73
LA4RT Jon