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Radioactive nitrogen

If you look at your reference, the longest half-life for a radioactive isotope of nitrogen is about ten minutes.

As Burke points out below, the only thing that can make something radioactive is bombarding it with neutrons. This happens in measurable quantities only inside atomic reactors.

Normal alpha/beta/gamma radiation does not make things radioactive, which is why gamma treatment of food is perfectly safe from a radiation standpoint.

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