Workers Find Four Radioactive Wasp Nests At A Nuclear Site In South Carolina

Officials say that none of the radioactive nests pose a risk to the general public, but other experts claim that the discovery is a red flag for undetected nuclear contamination in the surrounding environment. The plant stopped production after the fall of the Soviet Union, and the Department of Energy began cleaning up the site in 1996. The Department of Energy report on the initial wasp nest discovery stated that the contamination of the nest did not occur because of a leak in the waste tanks but instead from “on-site legacy radioactive contamination.” However, the document did not specify the species of wasp or which radioactive isotopes were found.

Author: Ainsley Brown

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