 Other than the recovery time partway through the irradiation, the cells would have been treated identically.The human body contains many types of cells, and the human can be killed by the loss of a single type of cell in a vital organ.For many short-term radiation deaths due to what is commonly known as radiation sickness (3 to 30 days after exposure), it is the loss of bone marrow cells (which produce blood cells), and the loss of other cells in the wall of the intestines, that is fatal.