Stochastic effects resulting from radiation exposure can:
1. have possible consequences on the exposed individual
3. cause temporary infertility
- Effects that happen by chance, typically without a threshold dose, whose likelihood increases with dose and whose severity decreases with dose.
- Cancer and genetic impacts are the two main stochastic consequences in the context of radiation protection.
- Acute health impacts like skin burns and acute radiation syndrome (also known as "radiation sickness") can occur after exposure to extremely high doses of radiation, such as from being close to an atomic explosion.
- Long-term health consequences like cancer and cardiovascular disease are another possibility.
- Infertility can be brought on by radiation exposure to the reproductive system, as well as radiation exposure close to the pelvic, abdomen, or spine.
- Sperm cells and the stem cells that produce sperm can both be destroyed by radiation.
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