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Radioactive Wasp Nests Worry Nuclear Cleanup Workers
foxnews ^
| June 11, 2009
| foxnews
Posted on 06/14/2009 5:55:47 AM PDT by JoeProBono
YAKIMA, Wash. — If workers cleaning up the nation's most contaminated nuclear site didn't have enough to worry about, now they've got to deal with radioactive wasp nests. Mud dauber wasps built the nests, which have been largely abandoned by their flighty owners, in holes at south-central Washington's Hanford nuclear reservation in 2003.
That's when workers finished covering cleaned-up waste sites with fresh topsoil, native plants and straw to help the plants grow — inadvertently creating perfect ground cover for the insects to build their nests. Nearby cleanup work also provided a steady supply of mud, which the wasps used as building material. Today, the nests, which could number in the thousands, are "fairly highly contaminated" with radioactive isotopes, such as cesium and cobalt, but don't pose a significant threat to workers digging them up.
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To: JoeProBono
Another “B” movie in the making.
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:59:02 AM PDT
by
bgill
(The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
To: JoeProBono
Coming soon to the Sci-Fi channel.
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posted on
06/14/2009 6:02:17 AM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: JoeProBono
Next will be the mutated offsprings, that will rival eagles in their size and strength.....
A made-for-SciFiChannel move.
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posted on
06/14/2009 6:02:55 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: JoeProBono
Them! Them!! THEM!!!
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posted on
06/14/2009 6:03:18 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
To: TomGuy
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posted on
06/14/2009 6:03:56 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
To: JoeProBono
Weird Wasp Girl pic.
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posted on
06/14/2009 6:07:06 AM PDT
by
csvset
To: mewzilla
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posted on
06/14/2009 6:08:03 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: bgill
The Atomic Wasps from Yakima. That’s either a B movie or a great name for a band.
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posted on
06/14/2009 6:08:14 AM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.)
To: csvset
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posted on
06/14/2009 6:14:14 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
06/14/2009 6:33:07 AM PDT
by
6SJ7
(atlasShruggedInd: ON)
To: JoeProBono
Liberal paradox: In 1000 words or less - It it OK to use DDT to control radioactive insect pests? This should be an Enlish 101 assignment at Harvard.
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posted on
06/14/2009 6:33:31 AM PDT
by
central_va
(www.15thVirginia.org Co. C, Patrick Henry Rifles)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
06/14/2009 6:37:53 AM PDT
by
Oratam
To: JoeProBono
Oh great, now in addition to the
Candiru or toothpick fish (look it up, I won't go into detail here)I get to add radioactive wasps to my nightmare menagerie.
Does it ever end?
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posted on
06/14/2009 6:48:00 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
( Hey, remember the last head of state who dictated the design of automobiles?)
To: JoeProBono
I have a serious question, exactly what do wasps and yellow jackets do, do as in honey bees pollinate flowers and make honey.
To: Rumplemeyer
They eat pest insects mostly. Yellow jackets though are the spawn of satan.
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posted on
06/14/2009 6:52:32 AM PDT
by
Tuxedo
(If Obamacare passes.... Texas needs to check out of the Union.)
To: csvset
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posted on
06/14/2009 6:54:37 AM PDT
by
Bratch
To: Tuxedo
Thanks, and I agree about the yellow jackets, gasoline and matches work great on the underground nests.
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
06/14/2009 7:04:24 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
To: JoeProBono
Know anyone who has ever been stung by a mud dobber? i don’t.
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posted on
06/14/2009 7:04:41 AM PDT
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dr_who
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