WTH???
The three toed fish were bad enough, but this???
Officials at a former nuclear bomb site in South Carolina have discovered a radioactive wasp nest.
Workers were conducting a routine radiation level check at the Savannah River Site near Aiken when a nest was identified with liquid nuclear waste tanks, The Associated Press (AP) reported.
The U.S. Department of Energy filed a report on July 22 stating the nest had 10 times the radiation level that is permitted by federal regulations.
Full article, HERE from Fox News.
Now they 'claim' no wasps were found, so where did they go??? And where did they find the material they used to build the nest? Inquiring minds and all that...
It's not like there aren't plenty of places they could be. Most of SRS is trees, swamp, and the Savannah River is on the south boundary. At 310 square miles, with 14 different 'sites' on the ground, there is a lot of 'stuff' going on there...
And who really knows were those wasps are? Do they glow in the dark? If they sting you, what happens?
So many questions, so few answers... In other words, typical government site... sigh
Let's back up a moment ...
Just what, I have to ask, is the radiation level that the nest is 10x over? If it's ten rads per hour, yeah, that would be troubling. On the other hand, if it's a tenth of a millirem per year, not so much. And many more follow-on questions, e.g. what's the isotope spectrum and does it match what's expected at SRS for natural background, or something else?
But, granted, it's more fun to think of radioactive death wasps with phasers strapped to their ass instead of stingers. :-)
wait, I think I've read this comic book as a kid.