From The Wall Street Journal:
… In 1998, after workers with Geiger counters detected hot spots in a dumpster full of old cantaloupe rinds, Mr. Johnson sent a technician out to investigate.
She homed in on a radioactive speck. "Her meter was going up, and all of a sudden the speck flew away," Mr. Johnson says. "She called and told me about it, and I said 'Yeah, right.'"
This is from a story about the problems with fauna picking up radioactivity at the former nuclear weapons site in Hanford, Washington. In this case:
Mr. Johnson soon learned the specks were radioactive fruit flies.
But there are also radioactive rabbits, mice, gophers, badgers and pigeons. All of them need to be tracked down.
