Back in 2008, Mythbusters ran an episode that asked: Could cockroaches survive a nuclear holocaust?

Mythbusters was a popular show on the Discovery Channel (from 2003 to 2016) and on the Science Channel (from 2017 to 2018.)

A team from the popular show visited Washington’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation back in the Fall of 2007.

Three members of the Mythbusters crew: Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, and Tory Belleci visited Hanford to answer the question - Could cockroaches, fruit flies, and flour beetles survive a nuclear holocaust?

The experiment took place in Hanford’s 318 Building - a facility dedicated to radiation measurement and irradiation science.

Human-Killer Dose: Bugs Hit with 1,000 Lethal Rads

* A control group of 50 did not receive radiation.

* 50 others were exposed to 1,000 r

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