Uncanny "webs" grow on Atomic Waste! Newslink

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Can Giant Radioactive Brain-Spiders be far behind?
http://io9.com/5868883/mysterious-white-webs-found-growing-on-nuclear-waste?utm_source=io9+Newsletter&utm_campaign=11084de256-UA-142218-29&utm_medium=email

This is as fascinating as it is unsettling. Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site — a nuclear reservation in South Carolina — have identified a strange, cob-web like “growth” (their word, not ours) on the racks of the facility’s spent nuclear fuel assemblies.

According to a report filed by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, “the growth, which resembles a spider web, has yet to be characterized, but may be biological in nature.”

OK–Mutants, Extremeophiles, Zombie Crocheters or Alien Invaders? Taking all bets!