{"id":628257,"date":"2026-01-19T01:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T00:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cronologia-universale.it\/january-22-2003\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T01:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T00:05:08","slug":"1996-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cronologia-universale.it\/en\/1996-3\/","title":{"rendered":"1996"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit, United States. Sixteen-year-old David Hahn, with incredible skill, attempts to build an innovative fast-breeder nuclear reactor in his mother&#8217;s backyard shed. He procures Uranium 233 (which would transform into Thorium 232, then Thorium 233, Protactinium 233, and finally Uranium 233 again). He wears a lead dentist&#8217;s apron, and takes care to throw away all his clothes after each work session every weekend (his parents are divorced, and he has access to the &#8220;laboratory&#8221; in his mother&#8217;s garden only on Saturdays and Sundays). 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