In Culture
The incident received scant media attention at the time, but was widely disseminated after writer Ken Silverstein published an article about the incident in Harper's Magazine in 1998. In 2004 he expanded it into a book, The Radioactive Boy Scout.
In the CSI: NY episode "Page Turner" the character Lawrence Wagner is based on David Hahn.
A television documentary, The Nuclear Boyscout, aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom in 2003. In it, Hahn reenacted some of his methods for the camera. Though slated to air on the Discovery Channel, the program has not yet been broadcast in the United States.
An item in the 1999 University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt instructs the participant to build "a breeder reactor ... in a shed." This item was reported to have been successfully completed.
The nuclear expert and anarchist villain Derek Frost from the film Source Code was largely inspired by David Hahn.
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