https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/radioactive_wasp_nest/
A wasp nest positively glowing with radiation was found at a Cold War-era nuclear weapons site near Aiken, South Carolina. A US Department of Energy report released last week casually dropped that a routine inspection had “discovered a wasp nest on a stanchion” near millions of gallons of liquid nuclear waste stored at Savannah River Site (SRS) that “was probing 100,000 disintegrations per minute/100 square centimeters beta/gamma;” that’s ten times the level deemed safe by regulations. …
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From the report itself “The wasp nest was sprayed to kill wasps, then bagged as radiological waste. The ground and surrounded area did not have any contamination.”
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