Seagulls

Seagulls are utterly detested by some individuals. They are some of the world's brazenest birds, and they can truly ruin a day at the beach if you leave out treats or if you let them to circle overhead and ruin your setting. On the other hand, they do a great job of maintaining pristine beaches. They might potentially be radioactive, depending on where you reside.

The Sellafield nuclear plant, which has hundreds of facilities and is located on the coast of Cumbria in England, was the scene of a severe accident in the 1950s. It is regarded as one of the most polluted locations in all of Europe and is very slowly being decommissioned. Sellafield was rife with stray cats, mice, and seagulls, which raises the possibility that they may have been splashing around in pools of radioactive waste and plutonium.

Why do Sellafield's open pools of plutonium exist? That's a valid question, to be sure. They were killing the birds and keeping them on-site in a freezer as early as 2005. Photos from 2014 revealed that they were still circling the building's radioactive pools. Reports from as recently as 2018 mentioned continued measures to regulate seagulls in the area through culling and destroying eggs as part of efforts to reduce radioactive harm to food supplies in and around Sellafield.