The Department of Energy said radiation contamination levels on the wasps' nest were over ten times the regulated maximum.

Workers have discovered a wasp nest in South Carolina exceeding 10 times the radiation level allowed by the federal government. Employees at the Savannah River Site were conducting regular radiation tests when they found the nest on a post by a storage facility for liquid nuclear waste.

In a bizarre and unsettling discovery, workers at South Carolina’s Savannah River Site found a radioactive wasp nest near storage