# Giant Atomic Wasps. Newslink **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 16, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-atomic-wasps-newslink/499997 "2009-06-16T21:43:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-atomic-wasps-newslink/499997/1 "2009-06-16T21:43:07Z")
Well, not _giant_. Pretty big, though. And they _are_ radioactive. > **[Radioactive Wasps Swarm Out Of Former Nuclear Test Site](https://gizmodo.com/radioactive-wasps-swarm-out-of-former-nuclear-test-site-5292744)** > > Workers excavating radioactive contamination at the Hanford Site in Washington — which was part of the Manhattan Project — have been finding thousands of > [@](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-atomic-wasps-newslink/499997/2 "2009-06-16T21:46:14Z")
_This_ sounds like a job for… um… someone? Please? And hurry? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-atomic-wasps-newslink/499997/3 "2009-06-16T21:51:19Z")
Just to pre-empt the accusations: I have NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS. You have my word. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-atomic-wasps-newslink/499997/4 "2009-06-16T21:52:28Z")
That’s bad ass! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-atomic-wasps-newslink/499997/5 "2009-06-16T21:56:04Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > That’s bad ass! Look who’s saying that.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-atomic-wasps-newslink/499997/6 "2009-06-16T22:03:51Z")
🆒 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-atomic-wasps-newslink/499997/7 "2009-06-17T01:52:21Z")
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](https://www.inkstain.net/2003/12/st-francis-xavier-day/)** > > —– 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](http://www.radfrog.com/frog.htm)** > > Issues such as nuclear energy and > radiation safety are discussed at this site ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-atomic-wasps-newslink/499997/8 "2009-06-17T04:34:37Z")
How long will it be before this gets made into a Fallout 3 expansion pack? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-atomic-wasps-newslink/499997/9 "2009-06-17T04:38:26Z")
I would say we have to take off and nuke them from orbit but now I’m not sure. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-atomic-wasps-newslink/499997/10 "2009-06-17T16:20:11Z")
This is the type of news story where it feels great to have no involvement whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-atomic-wasps-newslink/499997/11 "2009-06-17T17:28:35Z")
I would like to be the first to greet our new Giant Radioactive Wasp Overlords. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-atomic-wasps-newslink/499997/12 "2009-06-17T20:55:00Z")
“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.”