Super slime creature discovered in nuclear waste

Scientists are enamored of this new slime creature they found amongst nuclear waste because... it won't die. They smash it apart, and it comes back together.

Am I naive, or should I be scared? Does this sound a little too much like the Blob?

Organism found at SRS amazes scientific world 043007 - The Augusta Chronicle:
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/latest/lat_126668.shtml