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"Nuclear Pollution" is a meaningless term. If what is meant is irradiation, and what is meant is the effect on human beings, then the major effect is radiation sickness - your hair and teeth fall out, your bones become deformed, you suffer from diorrhoea, you vomit a lot and you develop lesions and open sores on your skin.

However, irradiating fresh food increases the shelf life exponentially.

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Nuclear pollution might also be called radiation contamination or nuclear contamination. It could include :

  • Radon exposure in houses
  • Depleted uranium dusts from American munitions
  • Accidental radiation releases
  • Radioactive waste (luminous dials, smoke detector radioactive sources)

In all cases the impacts could include:

  • cancer
  • fetal damage
  • poisoning as many radioactive materials are toxic
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