Hisashi Ouchi came to be known as the 'world's most radioactive man' after suffering the accident. But the details of his harrowing and torturous time in the hospital have left the internet shocked.
In a 1975 study of the eighteen people who received plutonium injections in Manhattan Project experiments, CAL-1 (Albert Stevens) was shown to have received by far the highest dose to his bones and liver, calculated as 580 and 1460 rad, respectively.
Contrary to popular belief, Hisashi was not kept alive because the doctors disregarded how much pain he was in. In fact, the doctors were heartbroken. They knew they couldn't save him, but his family never gave up. It was his family's request to keep him alive.
If humans are exposed to more than 4000 millisieverts of radiation, half are likely to die. Any more that 6000 millisieverts, doctors say, is untreatable and leads to almost certain death.
Hisashi Ouchi, aged 35, died 12 weeks after the accident. He had lost most of his skin, and was kept alive for 83 days, according to his parents and wife will. Ouchi was closest to the tank when the accident occurred. He ended up as the first victim of this nuclear accident.
Hisashi Ouchi didn't die immediately. Far worse, his DNA was utterly destroyed. His chromosomes shattered like glass, breaking into disparate pieces that couldn't be understood or identified.
1. The Painful and Endless Death of Samuel Clark. Based on the story of Hisashi Ouchi, this film tells the story of a Nuclear scientist who is exposed to a fatal dose of radiation, from his exposure, the relentless treatments through to his inevitable death, 83 days later.
Key Facts. Both the 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy facility in Japan and the Chernobyl accident in the former Soviet Union in 1986 required countermeasures to protect the public. This fact netted both accidents the highest rating on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES).
On 4 July 1934, at the Sancellemoz Sanatorium in Passy, France at the age of 66, Marie Curie died. The cause of her death was given as aplastic pernicious anaemia, a condition she developed after years of exposure to radiation through her work.
Survival decreases with increasing dose. Most deaths occur within a few months after exposure. in most cases, bone marrow cells will begin to repopulate the marrow. There should be full recovery for a large percentage of individuals from a few weeks up to two years after exposure.
Photographs of Hisashi Ouchi's chromosomes show them completely decimated. The profuse amount of radiation coursing through his blood eradicated the introduced cells. And images of Hisashi Ouchi show that the skin grafts could not hold because his DNA couldn't rebuild itself. “I can't take it anymore,” cried Ouchi.
His face was slightly red and swollen and his eyes were bloodshot, but he didn't have any blisters or burns, though he complained of pain in his ears and hand. The doctor who examined him even thought that it might be possible to save his life. But within a day, Ouchi's condition got worse.
The ICRP recommends that any exposure above the natural background radiation should be kept as low as reasonably achievable, but below the individual dose limits. The individual dose limit for radiation workers averaged over 5 years is 100 mSv, and for members of the general public, is 1 mSv per year.
The radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki today is on a par with the extremely low levels of background radiation (natural radioactivity) present anywhere on Earth. It has no effect on human bodies.
A freak accident at a Japanese nuclear plant more than 20 years ago exposed a technician to the highest levels of radiation ever suffered by a human being. Hisashi Ouchi came to be known as the 'world's most radioactive man' after suffering the accident.
Hisashi Ouchi, the Victim of Beyond Fatal Radiation Kept Alive for 83 Days Against His Will Ouchi and Shinohara being the closest to the source of the radiation fell to their knees and in excruciating pain, feeling nauseous, and difficulty breathing.
The same plutonium core – nicknamed “the demon core” – was being used by Daghlian and Slotin at the time of their accidents. The plutonium core was intended to be the core of the third atomic bomb. However, Japan surrendered and the assembly was called off, resulting in the core being left in Los Alamos.
1. Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant, Japan is one of the world's most radioactive places. Fukushima is still highly radioactive today.
"Compared with other nuclear events: The Chernobyl explosion put 400 times more radioactive material into the Earth's atmosphere than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima; atomic weapons tests conducted in the 1950s and 1960s all together are estimated to have put some 100 to 1,000 times more radioactive material into ...
The Fukushima event has been rated 7 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl accident. Even so, Japanese authorities estimate that radiation released at Fukushima is only 10 percent of the amount released from the Ukrainian plant.
The first was that the explosion at Chernobyl happened on the ground, whereas the explosion at Hiroshima happened high in the air above the city, which greatly reduced the radioactive levels. The second difference was the strength of the explosions.
Being exposed to anything more than 5 sieverts of radiation is fatal. Hisashi Ouchi was exposed to about 17 sieverts and was kept alive for 83 days.
For 83 days, Ouchi was kept alive as his body became increasingly deformed. During his first week of treatment, Ouchi received much of the same treatments that Shinohara had received, with the same success or lack thereof. Even Ouchi's sister donated stem cells.
Chernobyl Abyss, or Chernoby 1986 as it is called on the streaming site, stars and is directed by Danila Kozlovskiy and tells the story of the disaster through the eyes of a firefighter named Alexey. While the film does draw on the main real-life story, it's fair to say it does use its poetic license to tell the tale.