Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several radioactive wasp nests have been found in South Carolina at a site that used to produce parts for nuclear weapons, ...

Some of the most toxic nuclear waste in the world is stored in dozens of huge tanks first installed in the 1950s at the Savannah River Site atomic weapons complex near Aiken. Radioactive wasp nests ...

The recent Aiken Standard article on the radioactive wasp nest, removed near an SRS nuclear waste tank, raises more questions and concerns than it answers. First of all, the measured radioactivity of ...

No. No, they are not OK, and neither are we, because last time I checked, BUNNIES DON’T HAVE TENTACLES! Rabbits with tentacles and radioactive wasps. What could go wrong? Two weeks ago, CNN had this ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Concerns are rising in the Lowcountry as four wasp nests have tested positive for traces of nuclear waste. The first nest was discovered in July and subsequently removed. Now ...

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Reports of radioactive wasp nests at the Savannah River Site spawned news coverage the nation over and even spread to Great Britain, where the BBC focused as much on the “old US nuclear weapons site” ...

A radioactive wasp nest had been found at a nuclear waste and weapon site in South Carolina. According to a report by the U.S. Department of Energy, the contaminated nest was discovered at the ...

So far, officials with the Savannah River Site have issued a basic statement saying that four different wasp nests were found on a post near a highly contaminated section of the property last month.

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — As word spreads about the discovery of radioactive wasp nests at a South Carolina nuclear weapons complex, some researchers and environmental activists are urging the government to ...