radiation sickness

基本解釋

She could not confirm if her son or other workers were already suffering from radiation sickness.
她無法確認她的兒子或其他工作人員是否已經(jīng)得了輻射病。
The several dozen workers now attempting to cool the overheating nuclear fuel at the Fukushima plant face the gravest danger from radiation sickness.
幾十名目前正在福島受損核電站試圖冷卻過熱核燃料的工作人員麪臨著最嚴重的輻射病危險。
She said if people had masks ready available within the first hours of the disaster, they could have avoided breathing in Iodine-131, which ultimately causes radiation sickness.
她說如果人們在災(zāi)難發(fā)生後的第一時間有防毒麪具可用的話，他們本可以避免吸入導(dǎo)致輻射病的碘131（譯者注：即放射性碘）的。

The United Nations Environment Program said many inhabitants of towns in northeast Somalia suffered from diseases consistent with radiation sickness following a Tsunami in 2004, that may have stirred up tons of nuclear and toxic waste.

Almost 30 people died from radiation sickness in the immediate aftermath, and several hundred were hospitalised.
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Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan advised residents living within 30 km (18.6 miles) to stay indoors or risk radiation sickness.
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an illness caused by radiation (= energy from a nuclear reaction) being absorbed by the body and damaging its organs

Radiation sickness is an illness that people get when they are exposed to too much radiation.