RADIATION DOSE SHORT EXPOSURE TO WHOLE BODY
Effect on young fit adult. Injured people would be much more susceptible - also elderly people and children.
SURVIVAL IMPOSSIBLE - Central Nervous System affected. Lethargy, unsteadiness, convulsions, coma, and death within days.
SURVIVAL IMPROBABLE - Gut affected. Day 1: Generally unwell, nausea and vomiting. Weeks 1-2: Fever, profuse bloody diarrhoea. Week 3: If still alive, bone marrow affected 50% mortality for young fit adults.
SURVIVAL PROBABLE - Bone marrow affected. Days 1-2: Generally unwell, nausea and vomiting. Weeks 2-3: Fever, skin haemorrhages, mouth ulcers, loss of hair with more than 300 rads. Day 30: Maximum bone marrow suppression, lowered resistance to disease.
SURVIVAL CERTAIN - Either no symptoms or generally unwell and nausea. Fall in blood lymphocyte count.