Saturday, August 02, 2025

SC: Radioactive Wasps Found at Nuclear Waste Site

The US Department of Energy discovered a radioactive wasp nest near the Savannah River Site (SRS) nuclear waste facility in South Carolina. The nest was found to have ten times more radiation than permitted levels. The wasp nest was found near tanks that are being used to store millions of gallons of liquid nuclear waste. The nest was sprayed with insect killer, removed and disposed of as radiological waste. Wasps generally fly only a few hundred feet from their nest and the nest was found in the middle of the 310-square-mile SRS meaning there is little chance they flew outside of the facility. Investigators say that the radiation was not related to any nuclear waste leak and that there was no impact on the environment or the public.

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The SRS opened in the 1950s, when it was creating plutonium to be used in the core of nuclear bombs. The site continues to operate today, but with a focus on nuclear material for power plants. There are approximately 80 commercial nuclear power plants across 34 states, and each of these produces spent nuclear fuel, which is often stored on-site in pools or dry casks.
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The population within a 50-mile radius of the Site center in Aiken, Allendale, and Barnwell counties in South Carolina and in Richmond, Burke, and Screven counties in Georgia, is 803,370. The largest population concentration is in the Augusta, Georgia, metropolitan area.

The site is administered by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) which the Trumpf junta and DOGE had targeted for budget and personnel cuts.

Links:

www.srs.gov

www.reuters.com

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-02 02:55 AM

On top of invasive insect species infecting the US, we are inadvertently breeding our own little monsters in the mini-Chernobyls dotting America.

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Link:

drudge.com

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-02 01:56 PM

Radioactive wasps?

Sweet!

If I let one sting me will I become Waspman?

#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-02 01:57 PM

#3: www.filmposters.com

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-02 02:13 PM

Soooo.........if it's not from any leak.......
how are the wasps becoming radioactive?

#5 | Posted by MBlue at 2025-08-04 12:20 PM

#5: My thoughts exactly-- how did the wasps become radioactive without a leak? But not to worry, the Trumpf junta hired back some DOE personnel to monitor the 80 nuclear power plants mottling the US.

https://www.actonweather.us/RadiationMap.jpg

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-04 02:23 PM

Great... so now we're saying that White Anglo Saxon Protestants are radioactive?

It does explain that Orange MAGA glow, though.

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-04 02:27 PM

Augusta National sits right near BIPOC communities and the neighboring corporate/government-placed waste sites. East Augusta is full of poverty.

Nice tableau.

#8 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-08-04 03:49 PM

#8: "Who cares if sewage treatment plants, radioactive waste sites, or air polluting factories like Felon Musk's in Tennessee poison the environment of poor people while depressing their property values?"
Signed,
Republicans and Oligarchs

#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-04 04:40 PM

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