Radiation Sickness facts

While investigating facts about Radiation Sickness Symptoms and Radiation Sickness Chernobyl, I found out little known, but curios details like:

3 men found hot metal cylinders in a forest and used them to warm themselves over night. They had found soviet Strontium-90 sources, suffered severe radiation sickness and long term injuries.

how radiation sickness works?

Thomas Edison killed a man by subjecting him to huge amounts of x-ray radiation through the use of his "flouroscope". Clarence Dally's hands were used for experiments and to show off x-ray capabilities, which eventually lead to him getting radiation sickness and cancer.

What radiation sickness feels like?

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what are the symptoms of radiation sickness. Here are 10 of the best facts about Radiation Sickness Treatment and Radiation Sickness Stages I managed to collect.

what's radiation sickness?

1. By the time the people of Pripyat were evacuated many were already sick from exposure to radiation. Symptoms included vomiting, headaches, and other unpleasant forms of sickness.

2. In 1987, Brazil faced its worst nuclear radiation crisis. Thieves stole a radiotherapy source from an abandoned hospital which got passed around to many families and people, causing 3 deaths and hundreds of radiation sickness cases.

3. At least 70 US sailors have suffered radiation sickness, with half developing cancer, after they were exposed to fallout from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactor.

4. Scientists that were not yet aware of the dangers of exposure to X-rays often suffered burns, radiation sickness, loss of hair, and cancers.

5. Anatoly Dyatlov, deputy chief-engineer of the Chernobyl Power Plant, responsible for the nuclear disaster in 1986, took part in another nuclear accident before, while installing reactors into submarines and suffered a mild radiation sickness.

6. On the 30th September 1999, two men were involved in a nuclear fission accident in the Tokai-mura nuclear facility in Japan. One of the workers, Hisashi Ouchi, was kept alive by doctors for 83 days while suffering from acute radiation sickness.

7. The three men who dived into radioactive waters underneath the destroyed reactor at Chernobyl didn't die of radiation sickness. One passed away in 2005 of a heart attack and the other two are still alive.

8. Bananas are naturally radioactive! They contain Potassium-40 which is a radioactive isotope of Potassium. Bananas undergo about 14 decays per second, measurable by commercial radiation sensors. It would take the consumption of five million bananas in a sitting to give anyone radiation sickness.