Radioactive wasp nest found at site where US once made nuclear bombs

Workers at a South Carolina site that once made nuclear bomb parts have found a radioactive wasp nest. Officials say there's no danger to anyone. Employees checking radiation levels at the Savannah River Site near Aiken found the nest on July 3. It was near tanks storing liquid nuclear waste. The nest had radiation levels 10 times above federal limits. Workers sprayed it with insect killer and disposed of it as radioactive waste. No wasps were found. Officials say the nest was likely contaminated from residual radioactivity. Watchdog group Savannah River Site Watch criticized the report for lacking details on the contamination source.

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3 month @[email protected] stats: Number of measurement days: 16 CPM min/max/avg: 7.00/ 83.00/ 35.01 ADER min/max/avg: 0.26/ 3.03/ 1.28 [microSv/h] Total measure count: 60432 Total distance: 4595.56 km AVG measures/day: 3777.00 AVG distance/day: 287.22 km #radioactivity ☢️ @[email protected]

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A record amount of radioactivity has been reduced in Savannah River Site legacy radioactive tank waste over the past four years.
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".. waste .. defense, research, medical programs, .. NASA missions — tot. 33 million gall. .. stored at SRS in two groupings of underground waste tanks known as tank farms."

https://www.energy.gov/em/articles/savannah-river-tank-waste-cleanup-marks-record-risk-reduction-four-years

25.2.2026

radioactivity reduced ?

#Atomkraft #Atommüll #DWPF #Kernenergie #NuclearWaste #radioactivity #Radioaktivität #SavannahRiverSite #SRS #SWPF #TankFarm

Savannah River Tank Waste Cleanup Marks Record Risk Reduction in Four Years

A record amount of radioactivity has been reduced in Savannah River Site legacy radioactive tank waste over the past four years. February 25, 2026

Energy.gov

A map showing the distribution of cesium-137 from that fallout plume
that remains measurable on the ground in Europe 30 years after the disaster.

https://apjjf.org/2022/7/Jacobs

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#Chernobyl
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Global hibakusha

Who are the “global hibakusha”? As many of us know, hibakusha is the Japanese word used to refer to those who survived the two nuclear attacks conducted by the United States against the people living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Those attacks killed between 100,000 and 200,000 human beings instantly, and wounded as many.

https://apjjf.org/2022/7/Jacobs

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#hibakusha
#NuclearWeapons
#NuclearTests
#radioactivity
#fallout

#Physics and #Chemistry #Nobel laureates warn about the risks of #AI, as already done by Curie and Joliot concerning the developments of artificial #radioactivity:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-024-01345-9

#ai #physics

Artificial Intelligence awarded two Nobel Prizes for innovations that will shape the future of medicine - npj Digital Medicine

John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton were awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing machine learning technology using artificial neural networks. In Chemistry it was awarded to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for developing an AI algorithm that solved the 50-year protein structure prediction challenge. This highlights AI’s impact on science, medicine and society; however, the winners acknowledge ethical aspects of AI that must be considered.

Nature
Tak už mám doma taky svůj vlastní ☢️ zářiĉ made in Japan 🤣🤣 #dnesniPosta #radioactivity @[email protected]