Sentences with phrase «acute radiation poisoning»

Cosmic rays don't do any heating, a dose of 1 Gray (100 rads) is only 1 Joule / kg, so if they directly drove climate change, we'd be dead from acute radiation poisoning every time a cosmic flare occurred.

Workers and firefighters who suffered acute radiation poisoning died there, and as you walk past their belongings, still in situ 29 years later, your Geiger counter crackles wildly.