The people of Sweden are an industrious lot, excelling at stuff that usually invovles much skill and manual dexterity. Small wonder than that every once in a while news pops up of a Swedish DIY at home project gone awry. Remember that Guitar Gun from some time ago? Anyway, Richard Handl is one dude whose name deserves to be cast unto legend. See, the deal with Handl is he endeavored to build a nuclear reactor in his kitchen. The real wow part is a lengthy blog of his kept the internet (or anyone who cared) aware of his activities. The plot does thicken however.

While the general internet-connected public was theoretically informed of his actions thru a blog, it took a rare query to an energy institution to get him in trouble. After a small experiment in his kitchen cause a ‘minor meltdown’ Handl tried to ask assistance from the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority who responded a few days later with three representatives and a lot of policemen.

In what would pass for comedy gold if it weren’t heartbrekingly true, the DIY enthusiast posted the following after his short incarceration: 

fety Authory went into my apartment with very advanced measure-tools. 
Since then, Handl’s epic science project has gone viral. Still, we hope his spirit is udnaunted. We raise our ale mugs to the champions of rugged individualistic cutting edge science everywhere.