Hanford poop - yes, it’s come to this

The story of cleanup efforts at Hanford hit the national radar last week as Rachel Maddow did a story about radioactive waste removal and stimulus spending and radioactive rabbit poop.  Yes that’s right, radioactive rabbit poop.  At an area that is the center of the largest environmental cleanup operation in the country, rabbit poop is suddenly the face of a cause. According to the Seattle P-I, jackrabbits who have taken a liking to the nuclear sludge, which contains a radioactive salt that they can’t get enough of, routinely burrow into the sites, lick the salt, and poop it out, leaving slightly radioactive scat all over the ground.