Here’s a story that seems somehow inevitable in these times. Workers cleaning up a restricted area in the Savannah River Nuclear Site, contaminated by its long history in atomic arms production, have found four radioactive wasps’ nests. The nests all were “hot”, emitting ten times more radiation than allowed under federal safety limits. The nests were sprayed with insecticide and disposed of as nuclear waste, and the world was confidently assured that there was no danger nor superhero origin stories involved, hah hah.

Of course, they would say that. But the first report only mentioned one nest, and “no wasps were found”. Which makes a perfect set-up for a bug movie. (Of course, the Savannah region may already have been living on borrowed time since 1958, when a possibly-armed nuclear bomb was lost in a midair collision near there and never recovered.)

Four Radioactive Wasp Nests Have Been Found At A Nuclear Facility In South Carolina

In other nervous nuclear news right out of a monster movie plot, the Japanese are bravely going to use some “slightly radioactive Fukushima soil” — a whole 2 cubic meters out of the estimated 14 million that have to be disposed of — beneath the garden of the prime minister to prove how safe it is. That is, instead of using it in flower beds in Tokyo’s parks as originally planned, which caused protests.

Slightly radioactive Fukushima soil being used at Japanese prime minister’s office to prove safety

What could possibly go wrong from spreading radioactive dirt across Godzilla’s traditional stomping grounds? This shows just how nervous the Japanese are about this stuff, and if anyone has a right to be, they do.