How Does Radiation Sickness Work?

[@thejuice027]

Ok, so you told me what radiation sickness is, and how to get it, but you failed to tell me how it works. Which is the title of the video. I wanna know what does radiation do to your body that makes you throw-up, lose hair, or get scars. How does radiation effect your cells? Does it kill them, mutate them, what?

[@HiAdrian]

Agreed, this was insufficient. It also mentioned that people briefly seem to get better, but not why that is so. I looked up radiation sickness a while ago, and there's a lot of basics that could have been covered here.

[@sydneybrooks5529]

I agree wholeheartedly

[@Mike_Jones281]

Well it causes damage to your tissues and cells via toxicity. Its pasically poison. And on the cellular level it causes mutation,thus some forms of radiation exposure carries a risk of higher cancer rates in those exposed over the coure of their life.

[@piloByte]

Wah, wah... Waaah waaaah waaaaaah waaaaah! I clicked on a three minute video and was surprised It didn't contain an entire history on radiation. The answer to your questions are Google it.

[@thejuice027]

Autumn Sunrise Maybe you should watch SciShow, they prove it can be done.

[@TechnicallyaNomad]

Whoa, that's amazing. I spent 4 minutes of my life learning that the best way to avoid radiation sickness is to STAY AWAY FROM RADIATION. Mind. Blown.

[@ExorunS]

wait u want to avoid radiation? ah.. looks like im the only one researching for effect before going to chernobyl and jumping into elephant's foot

[@bottle3124]

4 minutes is nothing, this wouldn’t happen if you would get out of the house and play some basketball, stop being lazy and be grateful

[@krixig]

I work at a nuclear operating facility (read as "nuclear powerplant") and we actually use miliRem, Rem, and Rads which are just incremental forms of each-other - miliRem being the most common unit of measure that a person ever encounters (myself included, believe it or not). Radiation sickness actually begins at around 25 Rem of acute dose, which is 25,000 miliRem. There are probably only a few instances in history of individuals experiencing sheer Rads (outside of Fallout, of course). This is actually a huge problem when the media creates alarmist information on anything nuclear related as most people have no grasp of these units of measure. Everything sounds terrifying when you hear the world "radiation" and numbers scrolling across a meter, or a Geiger counter alarming when its set to its most sensitive level. Brass tacks, 99.9 percent of this country will never experience noteworthy dose outside of medical x-rays, and staring into the microwave while waiting for hotpockets.

[@CrescentUmbreon]

... Were you even paying attention when the Fukushima reactors went out? That radiation cloud has been in America for years now, not to mention we are still consuming highly irradiated seafood from the west coast. Isn't the frequency of cancer cases increasing to crazy amounts in California? Everyone had best do a lot of research on this event, seriously people.

[@krixig]

+CrescentUmbreon Thats absolute nonsense. Theres no such thing as a "radiation cloud". Theres an airborne fallout plume during a Part 100 release, but the Fukushima plant didnt explode - in plant terms nor like a traditional nuclear device. Take a break from your conspiracy dosages. There ARE industries to be terrified of, but its not nuclear. Oil and natural gas are poisoning agricultural land and water reservoirs routinely with huge spills in the backyards of this country. Youre panicking over half truths and ignorance of how radiation even works, as I said above. Its literally what all that fear mongering BANKS off of.

[@krixig]

The Boss *Sigh* Well, you put societal ignorance on display here in grand form. Nuclear weapons and nuclear energy are wildly different technologies. Thats like saying we shouldn't use kerosene lanterns due to the fact that flamethrowers spew flammable liquid. People are overly fearful of radiation for the EXACT REASONS I CITED ABOVE. THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND IT. Also, whats stopping you from ripping open a power outlet from your wall and stuffing your sandwich clamps into the bundle of live wires? CLEARLY we shouldn't be using electricity at all! Again; nuclear is a completely viable technology.

[@JuneW99]

+Krixig I have to ask in your joking "staring into the microwave while waiting for hotpockets" is there actually anyways to get any dose of radiation while near or looking into a microwave, or simply, does it release radiation period?

[@JuneW99]

+Krixig NVM, just researched it, microwaves produce non-ionizing radiation which is entirely safe.

[@TheNavalAviator]

The Soviets forced my grand-uncle to mine uranium. He was very skinny as a consequence. He died recently aged 81 but he was so contaminated that it caused his daughter to die from cancer.

[@furotrebulence]

Uranium itself isn't that harmful, when you mix it with other molecules it is.

[@ryanmaris1917]

Yeah, mining uranium does not cause much radiation at all, its when it put through fission that causes it to start to decay. A high-grade mine may experience around 3 mSv/yr per year which is not much at all. It's more likely that the cancers we see people die from today are killed from the amount of nuclear testing that has gone on over the years. If you look at wherever there have been nuclear accidents people around are affected for many years and generations to come, and both the Soviets and USA have set off tons of nukes in diffrent places across the globe, so it comes to no suprise that we have lots of different cancers across the globe, though not all cancer is a dierect cause of this.

[@John-yg2rt]

Yeah bro I was going to say that the effects of radiation are genetic too, you probably have an increased chance of getting cancer too

[@happymolecule8894]

Ryan Maris We can just get a Geiger counter and check the levels of radiation in the affected areas

[@wondellwonders4962]

I'm currently in vault 111. So I'm safe.

[@osaiha5913]

no, you're dead. You're not the soul survivor XD

[@evilpc07]

+Wondell Wonders cold in there?

[@Arjay404]

+Wondell Wonders There are rad roaches down there, so I wouldn't call it completely safe, either they were exposed while down there and got irradiated or they got irradiated on the surface and found a way down there,, neither of which are good.

[@shannonbishop6194]

+Wondell Wonders The rad roaches arent a threat as long as you get your handy dandy cyrolator!

[@spacejammechagodzillacity121]

Vault 101 is safer tbh.

[@Osteoja]

Gotta love these Fallout references.

[@zaphyra-]

John M what references?

[@Osteoja]

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[@iverhuejanus]

Smart Meters> I began getting severe headaches and pains in the back of the head, since I moved away from the room where the smart meter was these have disappeared, yet I am not the only one many others have had the similar complaints.

[@danieldjz]

Not the best video Josh has ever put out, to say the least. I wish it were more informative and less trying to be funny about something tragic.

[@zephenite6628]

I feel dumb for posting this. But I'm curious. Do you actually glow green once you have had enough radiation? I thought it was just some sort of thing from movies/culture.

[@BrainStuffShow]

Nope! We were just playing around with a joke.

[@isaacman112]

No. Radiation doesn't actually glow green. It glows blue.

[@johnschreiner4437]

+isaacman112 Actually, it glows multiple colors, depending on the element. Uranium is Green, Neptunium is purple or Light blue, Plutonium is Grey or white. check your facts please.

[@javonyounger5107]

+The Pancake Mafia by that time you are dead

[@sasha01198]

+John Schreiner citation? Also do they really glow from radiation in those colors or is it due to chemiluminescence?

[@UberMegustador]

yeah..but what happens inside the body while you are exposed to radiation :/ what does radiation does to your body?

[@MrRaxGaming]

Uber Megustador Radiation ionises cells (corrupting them/killing them) and they become cancerous tissue(Most of the time).

[@Timothy_VV]

Uber Megustador Depends on what type, how much and how long the radiation was of course. I'm guessing your organs will begin to fall out, and your skin will damage. Also what Morgan says, you ''just'' get cancer.

[@harleysq]

Uber Megustador check the story of Hiroshi Couchi

[@tdncgameplay7239]

harleysq harleysq god damn, looks like a ferral ghoul

[@ilyskyj4068]

Insides turn to goo then you slowly die a terrible death (if it’s a lot)

[@FyberOptic]

"You can never know too much stuff." Sounds like a good future topic of BrainStuff, because I have a feeling there is a physical limit, depending on the brain. It would be good to know, because if there's not enough room, I'd happily give up memories of shows like Lost, while keeping all seven seasons of Star Trek: TNG firmly intact. Or well, at least the first six. I still need room for MacGyver, after all.

[@BrainStuffShow]

I refer to that as my "RAM." I'll add this to our topics list. I bet there's been some research that we can check out.

[@matthewseneris6095]

Ive been exposed to radiation Its a smelly kind of radiaton It has a pfffftttt sound when it comes out

[@henriksundqvist5089]

Matthew Seneris I hear radiation saunds when i breathe, do i have troath cancer?

[@rhythmdroid]

Please re-title video "What is Radiation Sickness?" or the downvotes will continue to erode the video's performance.

[@ttmcookies]

I am sorry to say, there seems to be a misunderstanding: Alpha particles are actually quite energetic. They have a higher energy than beta or gamma radiation. It is this fact that lets them be easily guarded against: The propability of them reacting with air particles or any other particle is much higher than for the much less energetic beta particles or gamma "rays". Thus gamma rays penetrate much more than alpha radiation, but alpha radiation within the body (inhaled or swallowed) are much more problematic for the organs around them.

[@TheNecromancer6666]

I have never bin on radiation sickness levels, but i managed to get quite a big dose of it as i was visiting old mineshafts, a lot of them have quite impressive amounts of uranium oxides and different radioactive Gas stage fission in them, Visiting one for hours is no problem. Visiting several in a few days some, of them known too have very serious amounts of radon isotopes in the air is unhealthy. But i didnt suffer any symptomes or damage. Was part of a school project before A levels. We only found out later the ampunt we were exposed too and that we breathed in ...

[@justindavies1262]

Dumbed down too much.

[@skulduggerypleasantt]

oh so no ghoulification?

[@MartinHoeckerMartinez]

Depending on how you measure it all of the types of radiation can be described as particles or rays or waves. Also the electron like the photon has no well defined minimum size. alpha particles (bare helium nuclei, 2 protons 2 neutrons) beta particles (electrons, or positrons) pdg8.lbl.gov/rpp2014v0/pdgLive/Particle.action?node=S003 gamma radiation (high energy photons) pdg8.lbl.gov/rpp2014v0/pdgLive/Particle.action?node=S000

[@AlHaadiAbuBakar]

If you close your eyes, you could hear Dr Banner explaining radiation sickness to the Avengers.

[@gbantock]

I was exposed to radiation continuously as well as on one particular occasion when I was in the Navy. My ship had a deck (which I traversed often) that was so irradiated that it had to be ripped off and replaced.

[@Ekka13]

Radiation absorbed dose is actually measured in rad or Gyt. Sieverts are not a measure of how much radiation a person has absorbed into their body. CT's are also not full body dose radiation, so I would say it's nearly impossible to experience acute radiation sickness from having a CT. Also the background radiation dose you mentioned doesn't have a time with it. Is that daily dose? Hourly dose? That makes a big difference. Just to begin having symptoms of of acute radiation syndrome you would have to have an ENTIRE BODY dose of 100rad or 1Gyt. To put this in relation to Sieverts 1rad = 10mSv = 0.01 Sieverts. There are also different levels of radiation sickness; hematologic, gastrointestinal and central nervous system.

[@weegiewarbler]

That explained nothing.

[@candykid4ever2011]

Ya 5g and it burns

[@avamaria21]

Josh how is it possible that you published this without mentioning Fukushima, and the death of the Pacific Ocean?

[@sheimi91]

"Enemy of the Russian state"... well, this aged badly. Waiting for part two, where you talk about what to do if you're in central Europe in March 2022

[@chuck4747]

man i truly mean this as a compliment because its better than coming off nerdy but this dudes like dropping some pretty technical stuff but hes got a way of sounding like a burn out or somethin while he does it. Its cool i have never seen anything quite list it i mean i have seen both but not together lol.

[@patbrown2227]

Wow, these people think we must be idiots. This video is as educationally valuable as watching paint dry.

[@BrainStuffShow]

How exactly does radiation sickness work? We had Josh explain.

[@makdavian3567]

Please make a video about WOW Signal!

[@MallocArray]

I wasn't particularly interested in the topic, but I like Josh as a host, so I watched anyway.

[@FearghusMuir]

Didn't really go into much detail :L

[@VirgileMcK]

He did not explain it. I came here to learn how the sickness appears, i mean the physiological mechanism and i'm a bit disappointed because he only tells us which things induce sickness, not how it works. The title is not the good one.

[@PAULLONDEN]

Virgile McK Yeah indeed..but we can look it up in wikipedea. It's basicly that high energy radiation particles manage to mess up one's cell structure and DNA.This link explains how. www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-03/fyi-how-does-nuclear-radiation-do-its-damage

[@MultiSciGeek]

This guy gives me radiation sickness

[@jennifercampbell7904]

2020 :5G

[@makdavian3567]

Don't you guys agree he's probably the best host here? Others are great too but this guy is just flowers and rainbows..

[@erlinerameau5257]

The kind of covid you get from radiation

[@marklechman1005]

Anybody notice how that guy's voice and general demeanor resembles Mark Ruffalo? The laid-back attitude, the calm tone of voice. Am I the only one who noticed?

[@SharpBarb]

I don't always go into high radiation areas, but when I do, I measure my dose in mREM.

[@imachavel]

The closest explanation I've ever heard to what radiation poisoning feels like is like a burn that never goes away. Like imagine you touched red hot coals in a fire and burned your hand. But your hand did not burning. Almost like the heat seeped into your hand and continued burning then spread to other parts of your body and continued burning and takes weeks to go away if not months or even years and can cause all sorts of other stuff like cancer and other diseases. I don't know how accurate that is. But it seems the best comparison to a disease where you continually get burned for an unknown matter of time with no explanation. Explanation kind of makes sense as well since radiation is essentially just energy releasing other energy and what burns the human body? Too much energy. It can be burned by radiation. Or fire. Or too much cold can burn you as it sucks the heat up out as it leaves your body. Anything that burns is just radiation meaning = heat. Heat is produced by a source of energy until its fuel supply is used up. In a bonfire when the wood is completely burned the fire is extinguished. In the sun the fire goes out when all the fuseable material is used up and the sun is extinguished. In our body I assume when the bombardment of atomic particles somehow slows and is nuetralized then our body stops burning from radiation poisoning.

[@EphemeralProductions]

He mentioned gamma ray photons but not xray and ultraviolet. those are lower energy photons and are still radiation and on the same spectrum.

[@hookemhorns8504]

As an industrial radiographer I'm around this stuff daily. Very interesting stuff and very dangerous.

[@robotaholic]

I'm so glad my first KZbin search pulled this video up instead of one with people with boils excetera LOL

[@TheNewWubble]

Should have talked about precisely how radioactive particles interact with our cells and how that interaction is different from everyday situations. As far as I know, at least with one example, depleted uranium harms people because it has spikes on the outside of it that poke and prod cells and basically mess up their routines and complicate reproduction, which then can lead to cancer and other issues.

[@edgarazaky8256]

That's why we have radaway and power armors

[@richardlionerheart1945]

No thats why we have vodka

[@keppycs]

Is the green glow an actual thing? Couldn't hear if Josh was being sarcastic or not.

[@BrainStuffShow]

+TotallyDerp It is not an actual thing -- Josh was joking.

[@keppycs]

BrainStuff - HowStuffWorks It would be really cool though! :D

[@petermccullough3222]

+BrainStuff - HowStuffWorks. It's real we can not see it though.

[@jologap]

If you can't see it, then it's not real.

[@petermccullough3222]

+archangel404 yeah just like radiation

[@mr_niewiffin_]

That is the coolest shirt pocket I've ever seen_

[@AndrooUK]

Green glow? While amusing, that is scientifically inaccurate. Also, I wanted to see a good video showing cell damage and which organs fail when, and why you feel okay for a while - not how to avoid radiation sickness. This video was not very good.

[@Echani3007]

There is a thing called a joke

[@DoNotPushHere]

What about the so told hazards of the betalights? Are they safe in normal conditions, or do they still leak some beta radiation through the glass?

[@slurpsfps]

Imagine being in 2021 I'm in 2014 pal! The new movie came out, it's called Amazing spiderman 2!

[@hristo.bogdanov]

I was in Bulgaria during the Pripyat incident...

[@Youtuberfan10]

I am eating a banana with radioactive isotopes while watching this video.

[@infotehnoloog1006]

4 minutes and actually nothing was explained!

[@mariagraffelner5216]

I worked at a radiation cancer treatment center for a period of time. 2 months after I started working there I started setting off every theft prevention scanners in retail stores. Fun fact…I obviously left that job & 6 months later the retail scanners stopped going off. Oh, and the treatment center I worked at didn’t just go out of business, it was decommissioned & razed to the ground. The good news is - Covid wasn’t exactly threatening to me. More like welcome to the party people - just another factoid to add to the long list of stupid stuff we’re doing to ourselves. Point is, you don’t get out of life alive.

[@Kaldosthesergal]

"you can never too much." Ha jokes on you, I'm a hypochondriac and now I'm gonna freak out

[@sharonmcdonald7162]

I add a phone radiation

[@dymytryruban4324]

Neutron radiation is also much worse: neutrons have no charge, so they are very hard to stop. Only Hydrogen atoms have good affinity for them. Even so, neutron radiation can induce radioactivity in stable isotopes.

[@zangiytawesomeness9627]

At the end it said look for a healthy green colour what if there was enough radiation to kill you but not enough to make the glow....

[@MaxDeckard]

I got radiation sickness back in spring of 2017. I can't go into much detail, but it was from processing machinery at a potash mine. Me and 3 others felt confused and delirious, like being out in the sun too long. Got nauseous and barfed our asses off within 2 days, for several days. Had bleeding gums, canker sores, trouble pissing and ot would be cloudy. Had a seizure and wrecked my vehicle too. Now I'm noticeably balding, have two non-runny shits a week, and i can count my sperm cells with one hand.

[@bottle3124]

I got all day, how did you get radiation sickness?

[@ionhunter]

Disservice to public, #1 We will never glow, dead or alive. Left out all the important info, 1. Time! 2. Distance! 3. Shielding!

[@mansnothot36]

Her: i like bad boys... Me: Pulls out Radaway and runs into The Glowing Sea without hazmat suit or power armour

[@zdw306]

PS, that background radiation that's always detected is primarily from the radioactive isotope known as thorium. It makes up around 70% of the ground content of the earth crust

[@jex-the-notebook-guy1002]

earth isn't a pie or pizza

[@andrewduffy1425]

5G

[@Lighthammer18]

Second year of engineering class and we're on a tour of a local nuclear powerplant that is shutdown and awaiting dismantling. As the tour starts we are each given a geiger counter just in case something happens. Now the guide thought it would be funny to remote control these counters and in the middle of the tour one of them started beeping like crazy. Good prank, but holy shit we were scared.

[@seljak2416]

An average person not working with radioactive materials is allowed to get 1 mSv per year but someone working with the stuff is allowed to get 50 mSv

[@movesguy]

I thought he would mention how they thyroid gland absorbs the radiation particles. And how consuming higher doses of iodine rich foods, like kelp and seaweed, helps fight off radiation sickness. Instead he makes jokes about glowing green. SMH

[@cindyrockwell1104]

yes i have october 2014 i crashed big time. After years of having medical test done for an earlier left breast cancer treated with radiation.1195. summer of 2014 i had a nuclear stress test then approximately two months later i had a whole body PET/CT scan done. 6 days later i was admitted to the hospital. I had blood clots in both lower legs, my hair was coming out by the brushfuls . my bowels were bleeding. my platelets were ll but gone. my lower legs were awfully sunburned looking. etc...i was given a poor prognosis of surviving. the doctors would not say what was wrong with me. my daughter still to this day argues with my doctors if . i was given a blood transfusiion and put on antibiotics for an extended period of time. my absolute llymphocytes bottomed out before they started to rise. after 8 days in the hospital they wanted me to go into another care faciliy but my daughter agreed to care for me at home. i couldnt walk i was transported home in a car but once there then i was wheel chair bound for a few months til i learned to walk again. i suffer from a bad tkr so between the two things my lifes quality is almost zero. ive got an acoustic neuroma and lost hearring in one ear. possible a parathyroid adenoma. they say i have osteopenia but bone density says i dont. must be the radiation damage is similar.. my teeth crumbled and fell outmy cognitive ability is almost non existance. but whats worse is the hospital and all my doctors have no clue or so they say. i can only .imagine how many people reacted as i did and have passed on or who are so messed up? i hate to think about it

[@sfitzsimmons0211]

Fukushima Daiichi is currently at 581 SV..... Think on that...

[@John-yg2rt]

Even a tiny split second of exposure to that and you're 100% guaranteed to be fucked

[@spacejammechagodzillacity121]

i ate a banana once. and kept eating bananas. 80 years later i glow like a christmas tree.

[@Quark-nk3rg]

Why do you consider Gamma radiation not as a particle. It is photons moving in a wave like manner. You did consider beta radiation as a particle, which true, it's electrons, which also can move in a wave form. ...so why not Gamma?

[@codybaker6423]

actually gamma rays are particles with out mass light is made of quanta or a small packet of energy that quanta is also called a photon. omg light acts like a particle and a wave yes light is a particle, a wave is the flow of photons aka quanta(where do u think we get 'quant'um physics. light is also on the electromagnetic spectrum which is energy at different frequencies. the frequencies is how fast its turning on and off which creates different amounts of magnetism or something like and ya that means that the electromagnetic spectrum shows packets of energy at different frequencies

[@samuelfusato]

I came across this video in March, 2022. What a coincidence!

[@JakeObBeren]

I thought I had radiation sickness once, but it turned out I just got angry a lot.

[@aguyonastreet]

How the hell does that happen? You get angry, so you think you've been poisoned with radiation?

[@JakeObBeren]

It was a reference to the super mutants from Fallout, I didn't actually think that! :')

[@kashu7691]

+MPB Mason you sir should get fallout right now

[@aguyonastreet]

+KashU No, I play fallout I just didn't understand what he meant by that... I'm actually a huge fan of fallout and looked this video to post my own joke about fallout,"Or just take some Radaway"

[@kashu7691]

MPB Mason l m a o

[@Echani3007]

Sarcastic: "well , my dad did say I was to close to the television" - sole survivor

[@Echani3007]

+Miranda Sings was that a joke?

[@sandranorman1347]

Can ten x-rays in less than one hour cause radiation sickness? I am still showing side effects from the x-rays I had from a month ago, such as extreme headaches, stabbing of the ears pain, and dizziness. I also haven't started my period after the x-rays over a month ago and have severe stabbing pain in my abdominal area. Please let me know if you think I have cancer and how I can prevent myself from getting worse. I just turned 21 a month ago on February 18th, 2016, also the same time I had x-rays. Thank you. :-)

[@logicreason3231]

Make sure to check the safe next to the RV. The code is 7-3-3.

[@mare6638]

in serbia theres still some radioactive places when germany attack us with aviation but radiaction isn't so strong.

[@thechellord9571]

I'm going out into the wasteland, if I accidentally get doused in a dose of lethal radiation do I put a band-aid on it??

[@AndyBlanchfield]

I agree with other commentators. You didn't actually explain how it works, only how you get it. Misleading title.

[@avamaria21]

Yes, I have been and am being exposed to radiation and I cycle between illness, i.e. nausea, and latency.

[@cfunited6885]

Shoutout to the the 100 viewers. I came to learn more on radiation and this dudes name is clarke

[@romand4670]

Pretty ironic comment about enemy of the russian state, considering the only country ever used nuclear weapon is in fact USA. Doesn't make sense at all

[@brianhunsberger1940]

Not sure if sun poisoning would count, one year I had a terrible sunburn to the point where I was blistering and vomiting. Wear sunscreen kids!

[@sprfitter1]

I work in a uranium mine and mill. What kind of questions should I be asking to better inform myself?

[@billlson]

So exactly HOW does radiation sickness work? All you explained was what it does and how to prevent it.

[@yejoonstech5112]

So I have a fire alarm that I took apart and it has 0.09 microcuries of Americium 241, will this radiation kill me?

[@thodtheguy4467]

when you play too much fallout and want to know what radiation sickness works

[@iloveyoshi0xo]

But WHY exactly does radiation harm us?

[@danturo1384]

I don't know much, but I do know that ionizing radiation (harmful radiation) rips electrons off of atoms and can screw with the DNA in your cells and such.

[@ArronCharman]

I read somewhere that most of the people who died in the Chernobyl disaster (besides those who entered the reactor core) died because they weren't given iodine tablets soon enough. How does that work?

[@BrainStuffShow]

Interesting... I'm not sure but I'll make a not for us to look into it!

[@BloodManticore24]

My Physics professor explained once that we humans use Iodine for several human functions (I think it is essential for the nervous system). If I recall well, the thing is that the human body doesn't differentiate between the several Isotopes of any substance. So the problem is that after the Chernobyl incident happened, a large amount of radioactive Iodine was around and people ingested it (unknowingly of course), and then it (the Iodine) decayed inside their bodies, causing the chemical bonds on their cells to get damaged and develop cancers (I think). Fortunately you stop absorbing Iodine once you max the quantity you need to live, so if you ingest large amounts of Iodine, you stop getting more from the food you take. So the tablets intended to prevent further assimilation of Iodine.

[@lovehonourlove3964]

Wear long sleeve shirts, wear collars, shawls, and scarves. Wear two t-shirts. Wear a hat, cap, or helmet. Wear long pants. Stay out of the sun. Find shade. The greatest radiation is sunlight. Stay out of the direct sun. Seek shade.

[@kovicrisi1726]

Thanks for telling me this cuz now I know how my grandmother died it was when she felt great but then the doctors noticed something in her the machine was showing them but they thought the machine was broken

[@schnozistanczar9433]

Ugh I've been exposed to like 1.7+. My school cafeteria is full of radioactive stuff, they serve gamma burritos on Mondays

[@josephsanchez3035]

Am I the only student here 😵😪😷🤐

[@johnconnor1523]

I believe I have been exposed to radiation. My grandmother's house is near Disneyland in Anaheim. I noticed the placement of the fireworks have moved. Everybody in our neighborhood has gotten their windows replaced and have re stuccoed their homes expect my grandmother. In her yard everything has turned to barren dirt. Is it possible that as a reaction from ashes of fireworks radiation occurs?

[@Leonelf0]

"They are not particles, they are rays" Ever heard of Wave-particle duality?

[@bottle3124]

Africans with beards are just like Africans without beards, with beards.

[@claybonclaybon8979]

I have and still is my skin is dry my blood is not circulating know taste buds dizziness. I had a lot of wierd things happening to me can somebody help me please.

[@akatsuki6714]

No its a blue glow plus there is some radio-active material smoking detector

[@conor6880]

Love it Josh!!

[@Keaudi23]

Russia should watch this after what they did in the red forest lol

[@SoggySquidward]

He's my favorite

[@chawtak3r39]

when I was 14 I stepped in son strange bright green substance in the middle of nowhere. It ate the flesh right off my feet. whatever it was, it hurt to walk for a LONG time.

[@MaceGaming53]

+Jacob Shaw um were exactly was this, country or state

[@argon7624]

Is real?

[@chawtak3r39]

Nebraska, I'm not sure exactly where. Umm. I ran away with my brother and we got lost in some strange area where lots of tall grass, bigger than I, we were in a panic, there was an area we came across on accident which must have been a bee farm or something, so we ran through this grass and stepped into something really thick and cold, it was glowing green like in the cartoons, about ten minutes later my feet were hurting so bad I took off my shoes and my feet were covered in blood. I have alot of Medical issues that may or may not be related to that. But there were also two barrels, metal, with the nuclear sign on them. But I would think if it was radiation it would have killed me or something.

[@chawtak3r39]

 Nebraska, I'm not sure exactly where. Umm. I ran away with my brother and we got lost in some strange area where lots of tall grass, bigger than I, we were in a panic, there was an area we came across on accident which must have been a bee farm or something, so we ran through this grass and stepped into something really thick and cold, it was glowing green like in the cartoons, about ten minutes later my feet were hurting so bad I took off my shoes and my feet were covered in blood. I have alot of Medical issues that may or may not be related to that. But there were also two barrels, metal, with the nuclear sign on them. But I would think if it was radiation it would have killed me or something. Its a mystery to me. MaceGaming53

[@argon7624]

... you posted it twice

[@dymytryruban4324]

They are not even particles - They are *very high energy photons*.

[@Bigbird7171]

I have a question. We know that everything that is created can be recycled or destroyed. Its 2015, can we tame radiation if a outbreak were to happen now? Are we in the process of even trying to counter it and become immune or find a way to recycle it??????

[@hf03ngp286]

chris thomas nobody can destroy or create matter. You can combine atoms to form many kind of compound but you cannot break down matter, unless you perform nuclear fission (radioactive atoms) or fusion (stars). Radioactivity is a property that is inside an atom so is not so easy to deal with

[@codenamegriffin]

Ok, so does radiation exposure actually make things start to glow green? Do radioactive materials actually glow green? I've heard of this so many times, how much glowing actually happens, if any?

[@BrainStuffShow]

Jeffrey, in this case (and on others) we're joking about the green glow thing. It is not, as far as we know, a real thing.

[@ricksanchez8584]

A guy in Japan was exposed to 17 sv of radiation. He died an agonizing death