What exactly is a radiation cloud?

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What exactly is a "radiation cloud", as mentioned currently in the news, in a physics sense? Is it just a bunch of super excited water vapor? Is it actually radioactive isotope particles? How stable is it? I can't seem to find any info on the term.
 
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