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A nuclear accident anywhere in Europe may seriously impact much of Europe, as did the Chernobyl Nuclear disaster, and to an apparently lesser degree the UK’s Windscale Nuclear disaster. In fact, Europe is still so seriously contaminated, albeit in a splotchy manner, from Chernobyl that it really cannot afford another nuclear accident. Similarly, a nuclear accident in the US could seriously impact much of North America. Last year a wild boar in southern Switzerland was found to be contaminated at 9,900 Bq/kg of radioactive Cesium 137, or 99 times the amount of radiation in food allowed in Japan (100 Bq/kg all radionuclides), over 16 times the amount of radioactive Cesium allowed in European food (600 Bq/kg Cs) and over 8 times the exceedly high levels of radioactive Cesium allowed in US food (1200 Bq/kg Cs). 30 years after Chernobyl, half of the high levels of radioactive Cesium 137 which fell…