US EditionRadioactive Wasp Nests Spring up in Decadesold Nuclear Site in South Carolina
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A radioactive wasp nest, with radiation levels ten times higher than permitted by regulations, has been found at a facility that once manufactured parts for US nuclear weapons, federal officials said.
In the U.S., four radioactively contaminated wasp nests were found on an old nuclear facility built during the Cold War to produce materials for nuclear weapons. Residents are concerned. This is known about the case.
The long-term management of nuclear pollution is a challenge far from being solved. ...
On former military grounds, everything seems sometimes frozen in the silence and routine of inspections. Yet, at the turn of a metal pole in the forests of South Carolina, a simple nest of insects has reactivated the buried memory of a site formerly dedicated to the manufacture of plutonium. Formed in the shadow of reservoirs inherited from the cold war, these radioactive wasps remind that contamination persists far beyond conflicts, nestled in …
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