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Radiation causes damage to the cells of the body through ionisation, and this can result in rapid body failure for massive overdoses, to cancers developing years later for smaller overdoses. All organisations using nuclear radiation must have trained health physics staff working to ensure nobody gets overdosed in normal working.

It can also travel through many substances like water, oxygen, basically when it gets loose it is highly deadly within a certain distance.

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