At a checkpoint on the border between the U.S. and Canada in 2017, American homeland security agents stopped an articulated lorry for a routine check.
Running a Geiger counter over its trailer, they were alarmed to discover a ‘radiating mass' was pulsing inside. This could be the border patrol's worst nightmare: a ‘dirty' nuclear terrorist bomb.
But when they inspected the contents, all they found was fruit. The radiation came from a crateload of blueberries, picked in Ukraine.
Since official U.S. government thresholds for permissible radiation in fruit are surprisingly high, the cargo was deemed safe and the lorry was waved on its way. But some of the blueberries were in fact way above official levels and therefore not safe at all.
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