U.S. Dept. of Energy steps up plutonium pit manufacturing at Savannah River Site

As dozens of tanks filled with radioactive waste are still waiting to be hauled offsite, construction for plutonium pit ...

Department of Energy says government shutdown does not yet affect SRS

AIKEN — As of midnight Oct. 1, the U.S. Congress has not appropriated funds to operate the federal government, but at the ...
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Workers at former US nuclear weapons facility make disturbing discovery that sounds like something out of comic book: 'As mad as a hornet'

The U.S. Department of Energy made a shocking discovery at a former weapons facility — a radioactive wasp nest. Sounds like the beginning of a comic book where a radioactive wasp spawns into a villain ...
FOX10 News

Highly radioactive wasp nest found at site of former nuclear facility

AIKEN, S.C. (WRDW/Gray News) - A radioactive wasp nest was discovered in South Carolina by workers at a site that was once used to produce nuclear material. A report from the U.S. Department of Energy ...
The Island Packet

Radioactive wasps found at old nuclear weapons site in SC, federal report says

A nest of radioactive wasps was found at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., which produced plutonium and tritium for nuclear weapons during the Cold War, the Department of Energy says. Department ...