Radioactive wasps have been found at a nuclear facility in South Carolina. Radiological Control Operations found a wasp nest on a post close to a tank at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, according to a report from the U.

Radioactive wasps were on the loose in South Carolina, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, The State reported. The newspaper said the discovery was made July 3 at an old nuclear weapons facility in South Carolina.

True to the plot of a 1950s monster movie, an old nuclear weapons facility in South Carolina has birthed radioactive wasps, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The discovery was made July 3 at the 310-square-mile Savannah River Site in Aiken, which produced plutonium and tritium for nuclear weapons during the Cold War.