Radioactive wasps 1

[Alistair_Heaton]

Radioactive wasps found at South Carolina nuclear facility

A wasp nest with a ‘moderately high radiation level’ was found on the site

www.independent.co.uk

Wonder what they have been near.

100000 dpm is around 5 x10-8 curies ?

Seems a bit alarmist.

 

[spsalso]

Not really. You just wait until they grow huge from the radiation, and start carrying exceptionally attractive women to their lairs, and.......

John Agar's not around to save us, anymore.



spsalso

 

[IRstuff]

Wipe the surface with a survey cloth or other tacky material where contamination levels are greater than 100,000 dpm/100 cm2, i.e. a High Contamination Area.

So, a non-trivial amount of contamination, since it's likely the nest was around 100 cm^2 or less.

However, I'm not convinced the wasps were radioactive, since it's more likely their nest, made from found material was actually radioactive.