I agree and I think we should be moving towards using this in the future. As for why it's not happening today, with all the news about that one little vial of

I agree and I think we should be moving towards using this in the future. As for why it's not happening today, with all the news about that one little vial of cesium that's gone missing lately... I can't imagine a nuclear regulatory agency being comfortable with letting every single farm receive shipments of radioactive material. Not until we have some sort of GPS+Satcom method of tracking these vials point-to-point. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_irradiation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_irradiation - "As for transportation of the radiation source, cobalt-60 is transported in special trucks that prevent release of radiation and meet standards mentioned in the Regulations for Safe Transport of Radioactive Materials of the International Atomic Energy Act."