Never good when a headline sounds like the opening scene of a Marvel movie: The Department of Energy announced that RADIOACTIVE WASPS were recently found outside a nuclear facility in South Carolina.
The Savannah River Site is just across the border from Augusta, Georgia. The U.S. military made plutonium there during the Cold War.
Officials found a wasp nest on July 3rd. And tests showed the whole nest was radioactive. But they say don’t worry. It was just a “moderate” amount of “legacy” radiation from the old nuclear plant. It doesn’t mean there’s a leak.
The nest tested at 100,000 D.P.M., or “disintegrations per minute.” It’s considered “moderately high” and nowhere near Chernobyl levels. They put out a statement saying they sprayed the nest and treated it as nuclear waste.
According to a local paper, no actual wasps were found in the nest, which is, good news? Or does it mean we’ve got a whole nest of MUTANT wasps flying around out there?
(There is a Marvel character called the Wasp. Evangeline Lilly and Michelle Pfeiffer have both played versions of her. Technically, Michelle’s character is the “original Wasp.” Evangeline plays her daughter.)
(WYFF / Newsweek / Aiken Standard)
