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For the public, radioactivity is a boolean. Something is either not radioactive, or it's radioactive and will melt your face and/or turn you into a cronenberg.

In practice, almost everything is radioactive to some degree. This is always handy to show people who don't get this: https://xkcd.com/radiation/

Also 1M gallons isn’t that much in the grand scheme of things. An Olympic pool is 660,000 gallons.

"low" after some 20 years or so of decay. But yes, you are correct.

Well, we don’t know because the article doesn’t make an attempt to quantify the level of radioactivity. So we are left with our imagination.

We have really good analytics. That water, based on the description of the article can be anywhere between “would be legal as tap water” to “kills anything on contact”.