Gamer's DIY nuclear reactor nixed by feds

Federal investigators were alerted to the man's project after he claimed on an Internet message board to possess uranium. After raiding the man's home, the FBI, along with local authorities and officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, found radiation levels that were higher than normal, but still within safety limits. Investigators pressed no charges, though they did remove the man's experiment at his parent's request.

"People do it in universities all the time, it's just not usual that somebody does it outside of a university," he said in an interview with NBC, continuing, "These things are in your tap water, you know, in the dirt. You could hold a Geiger counter up to a banana and get a count off of it."