Radioactive Wasp Nest Haunts Savannah River Site, Bagged Like Plutonium Lunch

Radioactive wasp nest, Savannah River Site: workers discovered a highly radioactive wasp colony on a stanchion by Tank 3, July 3, 2025, prompting searches like “can insects become radioactive?” and “Savannah River nuclear contamination.” The nest was sprayed, bagged, and treated as radiological waste—“not related to a loss of contamination control,” officials clarified.
After the wasps’ glowing residence was neutralized, the area showed no surrounding contamination—turns out nuclear wasps don’t make supervillains, just hazardous trash. Cleanup crews followed EPA Superfund protocols, sparking curiosity about “EPA Superfund site dangers” and “radioactive animals at nuclear sites.” As one official understated, the nest was “a victim of legacy radioactive contamination.”
Despite the Savannah River Site’s 300-square-mile radioactive legacy, only one wasp nest so far has achieved the dubious honor of being bagged and tagged alongside actual plutonium cores.