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Bookmark or Share- Radiation sickness - Symptoms and causes - Mayo ClinicRadiation sickness is damage to the body caused by a large dose of radiation often received over a short time. This is called acute radiation sickness. The amount of radiation absorbed by the body, called the absorbed dose, determines how bad the illness will be.
- Side Effects of Radiation Therapy | Radiation Effects on BodyEarly side effects happen during or shortly after treatment. These side effects tend to be short-term, mild, and treatable. They’re usually gone within a few weeks after treatment ends. The most common early side effects are fatigue (feeling tired) and skin changes.
- Highly radioactive spill near Richland WA worse than expected | Tri ...The spill of highly radioactive waste beneath a building on the Hanford nuclear reservation north of Richland and near the Columbia River is both deeper and broader than anticipated.
- Backgrounder On The Three Mile Island Accident | NRC.govThe Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor, near Middletown, Pa., partially melted down on March 28, 1979. This was the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history, although its small radioactive releases had no detectable health effects on plant workers or the public.
- Short-Term and Long-Term Health Risks of Nuclear-Power-Plant AccidentsAt a molecular level, the primary consequence of radiation exposure is DNA damage. This damage will be fully repaired or innocuous or will result in dysfunction, carcinogenesis, or cell death.
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