You Probably Eat This Radioactive Fruit Regularly, But Don't Panic - Chowhound

Firina/Getty Images When most people hear the word "radioactive," they tend to picture nuclear disasters like Ukraine's 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe or Japan's 2011 Fukushima meltdown. But in reality, radioactivity — the release of energy caused by the breakdown of unstable atomic nuclei — is far more common than you think. In fact, it's all around us; it's in smoke detectors that contain the radioactive isotope…