An analysis found the wasp nest's contamination level to be "greater than 10 times the total contamination levels" set in federal regulations.

Employees who routinely check radiation levels at the Savannah River Site near Aiken found a wasp nest on July 3 on a post near tanks where liquid nuclear waste is stored.

True to the plot of a 1950s monster movie, an old nuclear weapons facility in South Carolina has birthed radioactive wasps, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The discovery was made July 3 at the 310-square-mile Savannah River Site in Aiken, which produced plutonium and tritium for nuclear weapons during the Cold War.