Giant Atomic Wasps. Newslink

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

Well, not giant. Pretty big, though. And they are radioactive.

Radioactive Wasps Swarm Out Of Former Nuclear Test Site

Workers excavating radioactive contamination at the Hanford Site in Washington — which was part of the Manhattan Project — have been finding thousands of radioactive wasp nests, spawning a blizzard of atomic stingers.

[Sunspace]

This sounds like a job for… um… someone?

Please?

And hurry?

[Skald_the_Rhymer]

Just to pre-empt the accusations: I have NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS.

You have my word.

[Covered_In_Bees]

That’s bad ass!

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

@Covered_In_Bees

That’s bad ass!

Look who’s saying that.:eek:

[Covered_In_Bees]

[CalMeacham]

There have been reports of slightly radioactive animals around nuclear waste repositories for years. I remember many accounts of radioactive frogs. Like this:

No More Nuclear Frogs
October 25th, 2003 | by John Fleck |
Oak Ridge has finally rid itself of a dangerous scourge: nuclear frogs:

Government contractors have completed the $11.6 million cleanup of four nuclear-waste ponds at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, thus putting a wrap on one of the yuk-yuk news stories of the 1990s.

ORNL received national - and even international - attention in 1991 after reports circulated about radioactive frogs invading the federal lab.

Unlike the nuclear amphibians of B-grade films, Oak Ridge frogs were tiny critters and more of a nuisance than a menace. They acquired their low-level radioactivity by feeding and breeding in the lab’s hot ponds. The ponds had been used as a waste repository since the Manhattan Project in the 1940s.

St. Francis Xavier Day - jfleck at inkstain

Evidently this has been a “hot” issue (you should pardon the expression) for a long time, leading to vitriolic exchanges like this:

Killing Our Own

[LeeshaJoy]

How long will it be before this gets made into a Fallout 3 expansion pack?

[Zebra]

I would say we have to take off and nuke them from orbit but now I’m not sure.

[Sunshine_and_Smiles]

This is the type of news story where it feels great to have no involvement whatsoever.

[Shot_From_Guns]

I would like to be the first to greet our new Giant Radioactive Wasp Overlords.

[AskNott]

“It was a quiet afternoon in Passover, and Lucious Johnson was on his way to Temple, when suddenly…” (Loud, dramatic music. Lucious runs desperately and is cornered by Atomic Wasps. Close-up of the wasp on his muscular brown arm. Lucious screams.) Voiceover: “Now, he’s…WASP-MAN ! Opening September 1st in fine theaters everywhere. Rated NC-17, language, insect violence, nudity, with briefs.”