radiation sickness

基本解释

She could not confirm if her son or other workers were already suffering from radiation sickness.
她无法确认她的儿子或其他工作人员是否已经得了辐射病。
The several dozen workers now attempting to cool the overheating nuclear fuel at the Fukushima plant face the gravest danger from radiation sickness.
几十名目前正在福岛受损核电站试图冷却过热核燃料的工作人员面临着最严重的辐射病危险。
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.
她说如果人们在灾难发生后的第一时间有防毒面具可用的话，他们本可以避免吸入导致辐射病的碘131（译者注：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.