The proposed mission is ‘To seek and destroy the radioactive rabbit poop which can be found in a reasonably large area around a shuttered Washington state nuclear plant’.
Though it sounds like a plot of bad science fiction, federal government paid Nuclear Researchers have been required to locate and destroying substantial amounts of radioactive rabbit pooh recently discovered.
Government employees have discovered the radioactive rabbit droppings littered around the decommissioned nuclear facility in Washington State. In the spring this year they flew a helicopter above nearly 16 square miles of land looking for the radioactive droppings.
The dung which is the result of rabbits eating radioactive salts which are found in the subterranean burrows dug near buried nuclear waste . The researchers flew in a helicopter equipped with a radiation detector, when searching for the rabbit stools so that they can be detected and eliminated.
The waste site contains over 50 million gallons of nuclear waste from the 50 and 60′s plutonium production which have been stored in a 13 square mile area in large storage tanks from the cold war era. The tanks also had radioactive cesium and strontium salts within them which apparently are very tasty snacks for rabbits.
We have wondered how many multi legged bunnies or five eared rabbits are hoping in the woods around those parts? The decades spent licking the radioactive salts can’t be good for a local rabbit population.
Seriously one must wonder why the trouble is being taken to clear the rabbit’s droppings, but no effective effort seems to be taken to deal with the rabbits making the droppings.
Rabbits can be a significant part of the food chain, so with the rabbits being contaminated we can expect a knock on effect upon any birds of prey and larger predators hunting in the area? We also must consider if rabbits have been effected in this way what the effect has the radiation had on other small animals, the complete food chain and the local water supply?
Jon Hunter is an SEO consultant based in cheshire who runs a number of sites including one about rabbit hutches.
