Progress Energy says it picked up low levels of iodine-131, a radioactive byproduct of nuclear fission

"Progress Energy and Duke Energy in North Carolina and South Carolina Electric and Gas Co. all operate nuclear plants and say they've detected trace amounts of radiation.
Nuclear experts and health officials say there's no public health risk. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says people are exposed to much more radiation on an international airline flight.
Progress Energy says it picked up low levels of iodine-131, a radioactive byproduct of nuclear fission, at its nuclear plant in South Carolina and a Florida plant."

http://www.kionrightnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=14332571

EPA, NRC and consumer safety

The NRC case is damning: in 1972 a federal safety official eerily described the disaster now unfolding at Fukushima, saying that GE’s Mark I nuclear reactor presented an unacceptable safety risk and should be discontinued. His supervisor, Joseph Hendrie, nixed the idea, arguing that a ban could “well be the end of nuclear power.”

source: http://www.penfieldpost.com/highlight/x855929062/Online-Only-Abolish-the-EPA-NRC-and-really-protect-public-safety