Radioactive wasp nest discovered by workers at former nuclear bomb site

Executives at a former nuclear bomb site in South Carolina have discovered a radioactive wasp nest Workers were conducting a routine radiation level check at the Savannah River Site near Aiken when a nest was identified with liquid nuclear waste tanks The Associated Press AP stated The U S Department of Strength filed a summary on July stating the nest had times the radiation level that is permitted by federal regulations 'CARBON PASSPORTS' WOULD TRACK PASSAGE AND EVEN RESTRICT HOW A FEW PEOPLE TAKE VACATIONOfficials reported no wasps were ascertained at the nest The wasp nest was sprayed to kill wasps then bagged as radiological waste the document stated The ground and surround ing area did not have any contamination It is held the nest became radioactive through onsite legacy radioactive contamination from activity left when the site was fully operational The site now makes fuel for nuclear plants and cleanup AP shared There are still of the underground tanks in use while eight have been closed A watchdog group Savannah River Site Watch called out the review saying it lacked details about the source of the contamination and how the wasps encountered it according to AP CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTERTom Clements Savannah River Site Watch executive director slammed the record in text messages obtained by AP I m as mad as a hornet that SRS didn t explain where the radioactive waste came from or if there is particular kind of leak from the waste tanks that the constituents should be aware of Clements wrote as AP announced The Savannah River Mission Completion monitors the site and provided a announcement to the Aiken Standard a local news outlet Upon discovery of the contaminated nest the immediate area was secured and surveyed no contamination was determined in the area the report noted There were no impacts to workers the milieu or the community The nest was detected in F Tank Farm area which is centrally located inside the -square-mile Savannah River Site Generally wasps trip only a limited hundred yards from their nest it continued For more Lifestyle articles visit foxnews com lifestyleIn President Harry Truman publicized that the United States would accelerate the atomic potency project the plant opened during the start of the Cold War The plant was in charge of producing basic materials in aid of American defense programs primarily tritium and plutonium- according to the Savannah River Site It has produced over million gallons of liquid nuclear waste reducing it through evaporation to about million gallons according to Savannah River Mission Completion Of the remaining tanks eight have closed Regarding the radioactive wasp nest three additional nests have since been discovered at the site The New York Times released on Saturday The Savannah River Site occupies selected square miles in the sandhills of South Carolina near the Georgia dividing line The Associated Press contributed to this review