Something for the Groups Problem Solvers:

[Don Ocean]

Photo: Echoforsberg/Flickr This can't be healthy.

Researchers have discovered radioactive rabbit poop spread around a shuttered nuclear facility in the state of Washington. In September they flew a helicopter above nearly 16 square miles of land looking for the offending droppings, a result of rabbits licking radioactive salts found in underground lairs dug near buried waste barrels. The researchers flew a helicopter equipped with a radiation detector, looking for the rabbit poop so that it can be cleaned up.

About 50 million gallons of liquid waste from Cold War-era plutonium production were stored in a 13 square mile area in large tanks over 40 years ago. Those tanks also included radioactive cesium and strontium salts which are apparently irresistible to those of the rabbit persuasion.

HANFORD, Wash., Oct. 9 (UPI) -- A helicopter conducted an aerial search for slightly radioactive jackrabbit scat at the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state, officials said.

Finding and removing the scat would have taken months with a ground survey, experts say. The helicopter, equipped with radiation detectors and working

80 feet in the air, completed the survey in a few weeks, SeattlePI.com reported.

[The Daring Dufas]

I see a new source of nuclear fuel..........

TDD

[Don Ocean]

Maybe a converted corn or pellet burner?

[The Daring Dufas]

Well, nuclear power plants use fuel rods loaded with pellets.

*snicker*

TDD