The melons are glowing.

• Author: Wines, Michael
• Position: International

Think pesticides are bad for you? Try eating a radioactive blueberry. A decade and a half after the horrific accident at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Kiev, Ukraine--which resulted in an atom bomb's worth of radiation being belched into the air--food inspectors still scrutinize produce markets in Moscow, 415 miles away, with devices that measure atomic rays. This year, they have confiscated more than a ton of radioactive fruit, helping to...