I know. The following story almost sounds like prelude to an old B Movie. As a matter of fact I found this movie poster with it's wasp/human woman "getting her man!"
After reading it I'm also left wondering what "fairly highly contaminated" really means? It wouldn't be very comforting to me if I lived anywhere near those toxic wasps. Then again, it wouldn't be very comforting to me if I lived anywhere near a nuclear reactor!
From the Associated Press...
Workers cleaning up the Hanford nuclear reservation are going after radioactive wasp nests.
The Tri-City Herald reports 6 to 12 inches of top soil are being dug up this month from 6 acres near the H Reactor.
And, workers will dig up more individual mud dauber wasp nests over about 75 acres of the nuclear reservation in southeast Washington.
The contractor handling the clean-up, Washington Closure, says the nests were all built in 2003 when water was used to dampen dust during demolition of an H Reactor basin.
That attracted the wasps that used the mud to make tube-shaped nests for eggs.
Spokesman Todd Nelson says the nests are "fairly highly contaminated."
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