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Radioactive wasp nest discovered at South Carolina nuclear site
Not The Bee ^ | July 31, 2025 | Harambe Harambe

Posted on 07/31/2025 12:39:18 PM PDT by Red Badger

I feel like "radioactive wasp nest" is the sort of goofy pitch that movie producers reject immediately and without hesitation.

Except this time, it's real.

Via CBS:

Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs in the U.S. have found a radioactive wasp nest but officials said there is no danger to anyone.

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.

The nest had a radiation level 10 times what is allowed by federal regulations, officials said.

Side note: Today I learned that federal regulations stipulate just how irradiated a wasp nest is allowed to be.

The workers "sprayed the nest with insect killer, removed it and disposed of it as radioactive waste," as one does with radioactive nests.

The official report does not contain any photos of the nest, so we don't know if it was suffused with an alarming glow, or if the wasps inside had mutated to become humanoid freaks.

The government said, however, that there was really nothing to worry about:

The wasp nest is considered an onsite legacy radioactive contamination not related to a loss of contamination control.

A local watchdog group, meanwhile, noted that the government report didn't stipulate "where the contamination came from, how the wasps might have encountered it and the possibility that there could be another radioactive nest if there is a leak somewhere." Which seems like it could be important information!

The South Carolina site previously manufactured plutonium components to nuclear bombs during the Cold War.

Let's hope there aren't any spiders building webs nearby!


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1 posted on 07/31/2025 12:39:18 PM PDT by Red Badger
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The nest had a radiation level 10 times what is allowed by federal regulations, officials said

I AM ORDERING THIS NEST SHUT DOWN IMMEDIATELY!

2 posted on 07/31/2025 12:47:20 PM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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3 posted on 07/31/2025 12:53:19 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Red Badger

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4331729/posts


4 posted on 07/31/2025 12:53:22 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Red Badger

Obviously radiation is leaking from that storage area. What else in the area has been effected?


5 posted on 07/31/2025 1:01:45 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Red Badger

I’ve seen this movie before.


6 posted on 07/31/2025 1:08:00 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: z3n

Is this true?


7 posted on 07/31/2025 1:08:24 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: mass55th

50 foot alligators?................


8 posted on 07/31/2025 1:08:46 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Any chance there is also an ant colony with the same fate? Is it possible we are just a wasp sting and an ant bite away to making the Ant Man and Wasp a real super hero duo?


9 posted on 07/31/2025 1:09:12 PM PDT by TonyM (Score Event)
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Well if Lindsey Graham is suddenly 50-Feet tall then we’ll know.


10 posted on 07/31/2025 1:10:05 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Seruzawa

Wasn’t Vincent Price in it?


11 posted on 07/31/2025 1:10:48 PM PDT by atomic_dog
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12 posted on 07/31/2025 1:12:22 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Red Badger

Whoa, oh, whoa, I’m
Radioactive, radioactive
Whoa, oh, whoa, I’m
Radioactive, radioactive

Angry Hour at the wasp nest tavern


13 posted on 07/31/2025 1:27:22 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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Imagine Dragons!...................


14 posted on 07/31/2025 1:28:02 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Up and atom Fallout Boy!
Ja, dot ees correct.


15 posted on 07/31/2025 1:35:29 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Red Badger
"The nest had a radiation level 10 times what is allowed by federal regulations, officials said."

Gee, I didn't know radiation levels for wasps nests were regulated at all.

16 posted on 07/31/2025 1:43:39 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: Magnum44

One of my favorite movies as a kid.


17 posted on 07/31/2025 1:44:27 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: Red Badger

is it “THEM”! Again?”

well, make me a Sargeant and charge the booze...


18 posted on 07/31/2025 1:56:33 PM PDT by epluribus_2 (!)
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To: Red Badger

HUH!


19 posted on 07/31/2025 1:57:39 PM PDT by exPBRrat
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Reminds me of the movie “Them” that came out in 1954. I saw it at the drive in in the late 50’s and was terrified as a 5 year old.


20 posted on 07/31/2025 2:45:01 PM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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