I feared a great many things while living near Hanford years ago, but this was never one of them.
Nasty in all ways imaginable.
Six to twelve inches of topsoil in a 6 acre area are being dug up. And where are they going to put this soil? We’re talking 1614 cubic yards of “fairly highly contaminated” soil here folks.
I know! You bury it.
Radioactive wasp nests at Hanford reservation
RICHLAND — Workers cleaning up the Hanford nuclear reservation are going after radioactive wasp nests.
The Tri-City Herald reports 6 to 12 inches of top soil are being dug up this month from 6 acres near the H Reactor. And, workers will dig up more individual mud dauber wasp nests over about 75 acres of the nuclear reservation in southeast Washington.
The contractor handling the clean-up, Washington Closure, says the nests were all built in 2003 when water was used to dampen dust during demolition of an H Reactor basin. That attracted the wasps that used the mud to make tube-shaped nests for eggs.
Spokesman Todd Nelson says the nests are “fairly highly contaminated.”
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The fact that I laughed hard enough to spew this morning’s coffee out my nose probably means I’m a sick bastard.
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So this co-worker has been giving me a hard time lately. As we walk down the hallway I stop long enough to see her in the window of an office as she walks by. I say “Holy cow, I was just checking, but you really do cast a reflection.”
So she comes back and hangs a seminar folder on my door.
What was her point?
She says it must have been intended for me and came to her by mistake.
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The US Postal Circus must die. It’s for the planet. It’s for the children.
How Global Temperatures are Driven by Postal Charges.
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If you gotta break some odds and go get hit by a 30,000 mph meteorite, you should follow this kid’s example and avoid getting hit in the head or someplace really precious.
1 in 100,000,000. Go buy a lottery ticket. Lucky dog.
Lemur King's Folly 