Hoo boy! Radioactive wasp nest found at site where US once made nuclear bombs

[1srelluc]

MSN

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs in the U.S. have found a radioactive wasp nest but officials said there is no danger to anyone.

Employees who routinely check radiation levels at the Savannah River Site near Aiken found a wasp nest on July 3 on a post near tanks where liquid nuclear waste is stored, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Energy.

The nest had a radiation level 10 times what is allowed by federal regulations, officials said.

The workers sprayed the nest with insect killer, removed it and disposed of it as radioactive waste. No wasps were found, officials said.

The report said there is no leak from the waste tanks, and the nest was likely radioactive through what it called “onsite legacy radioactive contamination” from the residual radioactivity left from when the site was fully operational.

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Heck, I did not know there is a federal regulation covering how radioactive wasp nests can be in the first place.

Wait one! They destroyed them because if someone got bit, that person would have super powers. The Federal Government doesn’t want people to have super powers.

I want me some radioactive mutant bald faced hornets to do my bidding.

 

[ReinyDays]

The tumbleweeds haven't already got you? ...

"Hanford's Radioactive Tumbleweeds" -- Science -- July 26th, 1987

It's the plants I tells ya, it's the plants that'll kill us first ...

 

[Meister]

Hey....I fish the Hanford Reach area of the Columbia River for Salmon.
I'll have to take a closer look to see if anything is still glowing.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

The nest had a radiation level 10 times what is allowed by federal regulations, officials said.

The workers sprayed the nest with insect killer, removed it and disposed of it as radioactive waste. No wasps were found, officials said.

so just in case the radiation overkill wasn't sufficient they ran across the street to the gas station and hit the nest up with some raid?..."THAT SHOULD DO IT BOYS...LETS GET BACK TO WASHINGTON"...lol

 

[whitehall]

The nest was empty indicating that wasps die from radiation poison so there should be no concern about creatures like "Them" flying around.