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. No mention was made of how the wasps became radioactive, but it was not a case of radioactivity escaping the site’s boundaries, officials said. “The wasp nest is considered onsite legacy radioactive contamination not related to a loss of contamination control,” the DOE reports.
Author: Leslie Eastman
Published at: 2025-08-02 22:30:55
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