MORNING HEADLINES | Workers at the Savannah River Site nuclear facility near Aiken earlier this month discovered a radioactive wasp nest, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Workers found the nest July 3 on a post near a tank at the F-Area tank farm.
When probed, the nest was discovered to be highly radioactive, according to media reports. But the DOE report added the nest is “considered onsite legacy radioactive contamination [and] not related to a loss of contamination control.”
The wasp nest was sprayed to kill the wasps, then bagged as radiological waste. The ground and surrounding area did not have any signs of contamination.
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