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Inane Thanksgiving greeting from the US NRC, which constantly whittles away public safety, making a major nuclear disaster imminent. They also allow legal leakage of lethal radioactive materials into the environment from nuclear reactors and other nuclear facilities on a routine basis.

How radioactive was your Thanksgiving Dinner? Unless it was organic and tested, or homegrown on tested soil, covered and watered with tested water, you will never know.

However, the US (FDA) allows 15 times more radiation (1500 Bq per kg) in US food than allowed in Japan (100 Bq). A kilogram (kg) is 2.2 pounds. This amount is called the DIL (Derived Intervention Level). It is so high that most food is apparently not tested at all. For Europe the level is 600 Bq, and if it comes from Japan the EU demands 100 Bq so that there is no radioactive food dumping. (Canada, Australia and New Zealand…