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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
FinalGirl@blackqueer.life ("More boobs than brains") wrote:
Hey if you are seeing the news about radioactive wasp nests, let me give you some professionally informed context, @Rooster -style.
The site is called The Savannah River Site. It is a large facility where many different technologies were manufactured, both manufacture scale and experimental. The bomb-making they talk about ranges from traditional ordinance to nuclear weapons. There’s also a nuclear reactor there.
I was trained as a “contaminant fate and transport hydrogeologist,” which is a fancy way of saying I study how chemicals (contaminants) change (fate) as they move (transport) through groundwater (hydro-) and unsaturated soils (-geologist).
Much of my early study and training was done on the Savannah River Site, partly because one of my advisors happened to be a bigwig in the federal remediation of the site. So I know more about the site that, well probably most people. I say that all as a way to provide context and give you a full and detailed story to help you appreciate it when I say if radioactive wasps are the only thing we find there, then we dodged a bullet that, trust me, was not traditional ordinance.