THE STORYWORLD
The future world is struggling to deal with an ever-increasing quantity of nuclear waste buildup despite technological advancement and billions of dollars in investment in hardware. UK’s Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site, which has the world’s biggest stockpile of plutonium and uranium, two highly volatile radioactive waste substances, has continuously served as a convenient storage dump for waste accumulation.
After years of the UK government postponing highly expensive and tedious processes of clean-up, the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site experienced an explosive accident, leaking hundreds of tonnes of highly radioactive waste into the surrounding air and soil, affecting humans and biodiversity alike. Genetic mutations were expected to take place but no one expected this one thing – mutant ants. Ant nests are commonly found, and ants are one of the most common animals found on Earth. The serious nuclear contamination led to the mutation of different types of ants, creating a larger, stronger, more aggressive and intimidating breed of ants that cannot be killed as easily as before. The mutant ants pose a serious threat to both humans and natural ecology, and easily travel around the world from the UK via soil to other parts of the world, creating a major worldwide problem.