What do you reckon are the chances of people getting super powers or becoming monsters due to radiation?

Question

What do you reckon are the chances of people getting super powers or becoming monsters due to radiation?

Answer 1

You have better chances of winning the lottery than that happening.

Radiation does cause mutations which usually forms cancers or the common genetic diseases down syndrome, huntington's, etc.

However, cancers and genetic diseases occur so often from chemicals, viruses, mistake is mitosis/meiosis, and other things that its hard to conclude that low doses of radiation are to blame.

If the doses are high enough, then you will see increase in thyroid cancers and stuff.  Those some pretty high exposures though.  Once you higher than that, then you start what is getting called radiation sickness.  

Minor radiation sickness involves burns, loss of hair, and, suppression of immune system.  Severe radiation sickness results in tissue damage that reaches an certain extent where death is expected.  I don't think there was ever case where someone survived radiations doses there were high enough to kill off all the cells in the GI tract.

Just search it up for more details.  Google Radiation Sickness or Raidation Poisoning

Answer 2

Pretty low.  Better luck getting super rich from the Lottery (like Kyle W said).  Normal kinds of radiation usually just kill people (check out Hiroshima - one of only 2 cities that have been Nuked to-date).

Now if Your talking "Unknown Eexotic Radiation" which is USALLY what hits the comic book/movie folks, Then pretty good from what I've seen.  But which way it goes is really hard to tell, so WATCH OUT for THAT stuff!

Answer 3

Zero.  It will make us sick and kill us, not mutate us into monsters or superbeings as in some sci fi movies.