eli5: What’s happening to your cells when you get radiation poisoning?

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I just watched an anti-war movie “When the Wind Blows” (super disturbing 10/10) and wondered what was happening to the couple as a result of the radiation poisoning.

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Severe acute radiation poisoning will cause your cells stop reproducing all together as it wrecks havoc on your DNA, which contains the instructions on how to do that.

In other words, the cells in your body starts dying and rotting before you actually perish. And you’re not able to replace the dead cells.

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