Nuclear Wasps as Reported by NBC

NBC has a historic place among news venues. As a journalistic juggernaut NBC has whittled the news down to that which should concern Americans most. Not the ongoing wars abroad, the Supreme Court nomination which may tip a heavily divided court, or the multi-billion dollar spending measures, or those nuclear tests in unstable North Korea.

America, you've been warned: radioactive wasps are headed your way.

Or they aren't. Regardless, NBC has reported historically over the past three years on men and wasps. First in 2006 on the multi-million dollar government research project that studied whether wasps could be used to detect drugs (dog handlers were upset), then in 2007 when a woman tried to kill her husband by filling up his grape soda can with wasps, and now nuclear wasps.

It appears that the Hanford nuclear site near Yakima, Washington is suffering from a nuclear wasp pandemic ... or at least they were ... well, there are definitely radioactive wasp nests around, no word on where the radioactive wasps themselves have gone. The site was used in the 1940s to provide plutonium for the Manhattan project and, since its closure, has become a 75 acre breeding ground for radioactive, stinging, deadly (if you're allegeric) wasps.

Thank you, NBC.

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