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‘Your mission is to seek and destroy the radioactive rabbit droppings which have been found in a reasonably large area around a closed down nuclear plant in Washington State.’

Amusing though it sounds Nuclear Researchers have been tasked with locating and destroying substantial amounts of radioactive rabbit droppings.

Research staff discovered the radioactive rabbit droppings around the decommissioned nuclear waste site in Washington State. This year they flew a helicopter over 16 square miles of land looking for the radioactive rabbit stools.

The poo which is the result of rabbits eating radioactive salts found in underground burrows dug near buried nuclear waste . The researchers have flown in a helicopter equipped with a radiation detector, when looking for the rabbit stools so that they can be collected.

The site contains over 50 million gallons of nuclear waste from Cold War era plutonium production which are stored in a 13 square mile area in large tanks from the 1960′s. Those tanks also had radioactive cesium and strontium salts which apparently, are apparently 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.

More seriously one must wonder why the trouble is being taken to deal with the rabbits droppings but no effective effort has been reported in dealing with the rabbits making the droppings.

These rabbits are a significant part of the food chain, so if the rabbits are radioactive we can expect a knock on effect upon any birds of prey and larger predators in hunting the area? We also must consider if rabbits have been effected in this way what the effect is on other small animals, the food chain as a whole and the local water table?

Jon Hunter is an SEO consultant based in cheshire who runs a number of sites including one about rabbit hutches.

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