>Stopped other colleagues to enter the radioactive room >Went back and forth into the room himself 3 times >Prevented a big explosion that could make the disaster even worse >Took 25 Sieverts home and had dinner with lovely wife and called it a day >Went back to work the next day >Refused to elaborate and fucking died Aleksandr Lelechenko, the man, the myth, the legend.
@@0suLover the wife prob died from radiation poisoning since her husband that was just probably in front of her across the table or maybe even beside her, and remember her husband got 25 sieverts of radiation and the amounts that were considered a "death penalty"/fatal amounts were 10, so yeah the wife prob died of radiation poisoning too
the fact that Vasilev only got flashed by radiation for just a few ms (correction 0.2ms) and still received 60 sieverts, that's insane. radiation is scary
@harleyme3163 I wonder what he saw exactly when he got flashed with radiation, in his eyes from those flashes of light. You heard of the astronaut flashes of light?
Lelechenko deserves so much more recognition than he gets, he sacrificed himself to keep his coworkers - and a massive amount of Europe - as safe as they could be. As dark as it is, I’m glad he was able to have dinner with his wife.
It was the family's call to keep him alive. The second they finally agreed to sign a DNR the doctors stopped resuscitating him. The whole 'evil scientists expermient on ouchi' thing is kind of an urban legend.
There was also a narrative saying that the guy "wanted" to stay alive so that he could be studied since the opportunity to evaluate a person exposed to such high levels of radiation is a rare chance. I'd believe the evil scientists nonsense long before I would believe this version lmao.
It's from that incident with Cesium in Goiás? Because in November this year they found another person in Goiás with radioactive core scrap medical stuff, before it was oppened.
Problem is that Slotin brought his demise upon him self. He used a screwdriver instead of the spacers that were provided to ensure that full sealing was impossible. He played the game of f*ck around, and he found out.
The scientists themselves referred to it as "tickling the dragons tail" - they knew it was dangerous but machismo ran high among a certain segment of the science crew at the Manhattan Project and they felt compelled to do stupid shit.
@@blehh_mae He didn't butterfinger the component with the screwdriver in the earlier instances. As long as the screwdriver held the two components apart it was fine, once they touched - game over.
I think the scariest part of Louis's story is that once everyone in the room realize what happened, they started to run out of the room, but he screamed at them all to come back as quickly as possible, and get back in place, because it was going to be the only way they were going to be able to calculate the amount of radiation everyone had just been subjected to.
What _didn't_ happen was the supposed carelessness of Slotin, or the screwdriver 'slip'. Slotin did everything well; he only missed one thing: the effect of the changeable geometry of his thumb, by bending or insertion-depth, as a neutron reflector. This is one more video in the chain-reaction perpetuating the myth of the screwdriver.
@@banani14 it just means that you can move your thumb and bend it which changes it's geometry... i think it wasn't mentioned in the video that there was a hole in the top of the sphere to prevent this from happening, from what I've read, he did this a few times before and put his thumb in the hole to hold the sphere, but when the accident occurred he had his thumb deeper in the hole as usual or in a different position which changed the way the neutrons got reflected back into the sphere
That wasn't the point of the vid tbf, its just regarding their people who have taken more radiation. Not a competition for who suffered the most regarding radiation.
@@SMGJohn_SecondaryAren’t you that child that pretends to be part of a long defunct, failed communist secret police force on Quora…? The same kid that makes comments as stupid as “Is it only the Communists that can eliminate the drug traffickers and gangs in Mexico?” And “In what aspects was life better in the USSR than in current Russia? Ask yourself this, would you rather have free access to basic human rights, such as healthcare, education, housing, drinking water, necessities, transportation, safety even at night, a stable future, always a job and peace? Then my friend, you are a Socialist.”??? Damn jealousy makes children say the darnedest things. There are no human rights under communism, as we have seen with every implementation of communism. Not to mention the healthcare and education??? LMAO. “Housing”? 😂😂😂 You ate up all that propaganda and washed it down misinformation. You live in a capitalist world and would have starved to death under the regimes you worship. Every communist state suffered until capitalism intervened to save their starving. Those jobs you pretend existed were just forced labor in exchange for shit you didn’t need. The healthcare you talk about, was literally some of the worst in the world, and every communist leader sent their family a way to get medical treatment in the United States. Weird. The education you pretend existed, was quite literally just force-feeding children propaganda that the rest of the world knows isn’t true. And every communist leader had their children, family, and military/gov’t officials sent to the west for education and training. The necessities you speak about just did not exist, and when they did, they were worse quality counterfeits of western technology, but were somehow *STILL* more expensive than the west. No one was ever safe. But women were especially vulnerable. Rape, sex crimes, and violence against women, along with blatant 19th century sexist ideals are grotesquely overly common under communist governments. “A STABLE FUTURE” has to be the most comical statement though. Like what? How is completely collapsing into non-existence every time is attempted considered “stable”? If you love communism so much but you want to experience it, then just stop eating until you starve, have somebody who is already extremely rich, come and take all your money and belongings, and then force you to work for nothing in exchange, then get someone to sexually assault every female in your family, and then be killed by a secret police force of terrorists because your neighbor got annoyed with you and reported you as a western sympathizer. And you will feel 1/1,000,000th the suffering of everyone who ever lived under the genocidal dictators you worship. Stop trying to be edgy on the internet kid. Your entire life revolves around capitalism. You wouldn’t survive communism.
To think - if you saw a blue flash... it's over. Crazy. Think of the psychological effects on the team. In a way - it makes you more serious, but at the same time - the stress must have life-lasting implications.
In regards to Ouchi's case, he was not kept alive for the sake of science, but because of the family's despair. Since euthanasia in Japan is pretty much prohibited, it was a huge possibility for the doctors and nurses to lose their jobs. That was until dr. Maekawa convinced the family to sign the DNR contract, in order to let Ouchi die.
@@mrdojob he very much did have cutting edge treatment. Practically the best of Japan kept him alive for those 83 days, where towards the end, practically the entirety of his body was automated via modern medicine. Dialysis to clean his blood, chemicals to keep his heart pumping, and so many other interventions. At least for the time he was alive, he claimed to want to keep living for his family. I believe that he would've agreed to go through if he could speak through all of it.
I can't imagine the conversation between Lelechenko and his wife the night after his exposure at Chernobyl. "Hi honey, today I took the equivalent of 250k X rays to the face"
Wife: “the food you’re eating right now is glowing blue, same with your fork.” Lelechenko: “Oh it’s fine just some radiation-“ Wife: “Get the hell out.”
Wife: And what does it mean? Lelechenko: This means I now have a severe sunburn throughout the body, several blood diseases, AIDS and dysentery. I will have bloody diarrhea and agonising pains for another week or two before I die.
Ouchi's medical team wanted to let him go. But he was kept alive at family's wishes. Ouchi survived after 3CPR as there is no DNR record. His doctors let the family saw him every day to understand how serious it was. Ouchi by himself was asking whether he will get leukemia on Day1, not knowing how serious this situation is. After surviving CPR and skin sloughing off, the family finally signed DNR after many counselling. It is the family who could not let him go. They want him to live with every challenges and suffering he was facing. There is a documentary with his medical team in Japanese. You have to watch it first before u blame doctors. If there is no DNR documents, doctors must keep trying him alive till the last beat of his heart or else they would be at fault by not following health care proxy wishes and doctors can be legally sued and charged. So stop blaming doctors.
I'm so glad the myths and sensationalism surrounding Ouchi have finally started to be debunked. I knew of his story before it became common knowledge, and saw from the beginning how badly skewed it was for the sake of sensationalism. All of this can be traced back to a single poorly-researched pop-science article.
yes, fuck the shit outtta Ouchi's family for wanting him to live. On a positive note, nice job trying to be a warrior and stick up for the doctors while doing the exact same thing you're trying to persuade others not to do and shitting on people who lost a loved one in the worst way possible.
Yeah from my knowledge, the idea of scientists using him as a ‘guinea pig’ likely was spun from the fact that they called in scientists all over the world to do their best to treat him. They were pulling all the stops, doing everything in their power to save him or at least make his pain lessen, they weren’t using him to test him like a goddamn lab rat, they were trying to figure out what happened to him for his and his family’s sake.
ALSO NOTE- DONT BLAME THE FAMILY Ouchi consented to everything that happened to him up until and including him getting a breathing tube, which naturaly stopped him from being able to verbaly consent there is an outlier to this, when the doctors attempted to place Ouchi on a machine which would force him to breath, hed panic in pain and force it off of himself before demanding the doctors stop- which they did the doctors would then remind him of his family, afterwards Ouchi would consent to the use of the machine.
Correction: Ouchi was not kept alive by mad scientists. And his family didn't just tell them to revive him. There are many small hopes during Ouchi's stay that suggest he's getting better. The medical team did question themselves and the ethics of keeping this man alive, but they were just doing their jobs, which to try their best to keep him breathing. When they knew that the machine and drugs were the only thing keeping him alive, they immediately let the family know and suggested not to revive him when he went under again. The family complied with what the medical team suggested, both the decision of keeping him alive and letting him go was described to the family in detail. There are some videos that went into depth that there is no strong evidence of malice from the medical team or the family. It's just a rare events that nobody knows what the right answer was. So stop labeling them as selfish and mad scientists. His son is likely 28 years old. I felt bad for his son to hear that some internet ppl described his father's cruel death and his family accused as being selfish and the doctors that tried their hardest as being mad.
@@HarvestStudios_38The family insists on keeping him alive that's true. But after the second heart attack the leading doctor could get the family to accept her loss.
Ouchi is “most radioactive” in a sense that even if 17 sieverts is lower than any of the people in the video, he experienced those effects for 83 days instead of just dying.
But still they had several times more radiation so he isn't really most radioactive, that's a wrong title to give him while there is was man who was more than 5 times more radioactive. And also much easier to keep someone alive with 17 sieverts of radiation as compared to 50 or 100.
I wouldn't say any of them deserved it - slotin was certainly a fool for becoming complacent with his experiments but I still wouldn't say he deserved his painful end.
Ouchi's story is so misunderstood. he was not kept alive for science and his family wasn't evil only once he said that he didn't want to stay alive, but he decided he wanted to do it for his family.
They had found a few healthy cells left in his colon and they hoped that, if they kept him alive long enough, eventually all his cells could be replaced from those healthy ones as an origin point. But he was left brain dead after a heart attack, and after the next one, he was requested not to be revived. It's very interesting science. And it did advance the field of treating radiation poisoning.
It's hard to put those 100 Sv into perspective. The fact that Peobody didn't reach the shack after exposure means the radiation made a minced meat out of his cells.
The K-19 incident gives me shivers.... It's so surreal to think "I have to do anything to prevent this. I know I'm already dead, but I need to keep going." Note: Hisashi Ouchi's case is so polarizing because he definitely shouldn't have survived that long. His story is a deeply tragic one, but we need to remember that he personally agreed to continue treatment very far into his hospital stay, at the request of his family. Out of all of this pain and suffering, the medical field did make ground breaking advancements in radiation treatments...
As someone who sometimes has trouble hearing, I appreciate you taking the time to add in captions into your videos so I don't have to use the automatic captions (because the automatic captions are usually inaccurate)
Lelechenko had balls to go into a heavily radiated section only to spare the young ones from going through what he eventually had to go through. At least he could spend some time with his family before passing.
At least 7 sieverts, but probably 10000 rads or 100 sieverts, you can look here, ctrl+f ''Wood River Junction'' web.archive.org/web/20210615151005if_/www.orau.org/ptp/Library/accidents/la-13638.pdf
Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski hit by 1866 to 2799 sievert. Approx 200,000 to 300,000 Roentgen. He was hit in the head by a partial accelerator and lived after a beam of protons going near light speed went through him. He is still alive at the age of 80.
I guess he was lucky to get hit by protons. In criticality events like this, you get hit with high doses of neutrons and gamma radiation. Much more deadly.
At least he was hit by a beam the damage was localized so I assume that's the reason he survived. It's different from all the criticality exposures where the entire body is exposed to radiation.
He was hit with 1900-2800 *gray*. A sievert and a gray are equivalent, and equal to 1 Joule per Kilogram. The difference is that a gray is the amount of radiation produced, and a sievert is the amount of radiation absorved by biological tissue. Petrovich was hit in the head by a stream of protons of a radius of tens of a micron. No matter how much radiation the stream carried, there was not a kilo of tissue to being affected by it. The total amount of sieverts must have been below 0.1, and pretty localized.
Hisashi Ouchi experienced the pain of literally melting from the inside out...for roughly 70 more days than it normally takes for the human body to melt from the inside out due to radiation...
Note on Hisashi's death, the doctors did not keep him alive "in the name of science", and rather the doctors, Hisashi, and his family wanted nothing more than for him to pull through and return to they're family alive. Wendigoon here on youtube has made an entire analysis of the events, goes into depth on what happened, and even covered the misconceptions of this unfortunate situation.
He also calculated when everyone exposed to it would die, including himself :) Edit: Don't know where I heard that, did a quick goog and couldn't find anything to back that up because nobody else died immediately from it and he was immediately rushed to a hospital via ambulance.
@slimdangerous1928 He didn’t calculate when they would die, he told them all to mark where they were standing when it happened so he could estimate the exposure for each of them.
Crazy how these people can survive with such high amounts of radiation. Even just 49 hours is crazy for having been exposed to 100 sieverts. Those 49 hours must’ve been pure hell though
@@advithbhaviya5712" This criticality exposed the 37-year-old Peabody to a fatal radiation dose of "more than 700 rem",[2] which is 7 Sv. He died 49 hours after the incident."- Wikipedia
The 100 sv are a comically high number and it almost seems like a click bait strategy. There is no way to accidentally create a 100 sv critically event just by mixing the wrong liquids the way it’s mentioned in the video. These solutions don’t contain a lot of uranium compared to fuel rods for example.
@@kadarak1 Reminder once again that there is a reason Wikipedia is not permitted to use as a source for anything remotely academic. It's a terrible site for research. A random youtuber is unironically a better source than Wikipedia. That said, I'm not saying 100 sieverts is correct either. I'm not sure where Slav got that info. Just letting you know never to source Wikipedia unless you want to be laughed at.
Slotin knew he was fucked regardless If I remember correctly after he smacked the top back off the core he even said “Well, that does it” before telling them to mark their locations
He wasn’t really thinking about saving them, it was about saving himself and minimizing the damage. He did save them, but he also put them in danger in the first place.
Great video. I live 5 minutes down the road from the Wood River nuclear accident where Robert Peabody was exposed to the high radiation. My next door neighbor father was the fire chief at that time and was first on the scene of the incident. Still to this day, it's big news in my small rural town. The United Nuclear building was so high in radiation that they demolished the building and closed off the area until a couple of years ago. The government said its all cleaned up and the town claimed the land and made a wildlife management area out of it with hiking trails. There are sign all over the place saying please stay on trails. I recently purchased a geiger counter and am going to walk around and check for myself that it's actually cleaned up.
Hisashi was kept alive with his permission and the permission of his family. They could’ve kept his body alive for longer even after he began showing brain death symptoms if they really wanted to, but his wife agreed to let his next heart attack finally put his body to rest. He understood full well that he was an exceptional case and that it would be beneficial if he agreed to be kept alive despite being in agonizing pain, if not only for his wife.
all the doctors and nurses treating Hisashi were traumatized and filled with guilt. almost 3 months of torture he endured. they even brought him back from a heart attack to endure a few weeks more
Nowadays what they would probably do is a 'slow code,' meaning that they go through the motions, but at such a deliberately slow and gentle pace that their efforts would not work. This satisfies the legal requirements they are under, spares the feelings of the loved ones, and does not additionally torment the soon-to-be-deceased. That is as it should be.
Another person who I believe deserves a mention is Anatoli Burgorski, who had put his head into a particle accelerator, he suffered 200,000R on entry and 300,000 which is about 33 (entry) to 50 sieverts (exit) (math might be shakey because the converter I used had roetgen in hours and seiverts in seconds), Kyle Hill did a great video on it. Anatoli also survived this exposure
@@MJK-GC yes, but that was mostly unreactive alpha particles(high energy helium atoms)/ positrons . Radioactive materials release gamma rays(high energy neutron)
I think I heard of that one. The only reason he survived so well afterwards is because a human head isn't hick enough for alpha particles to do their peak effect.
Slav, I think it would be a good idea to post the sources of the information you find in places such as the description so it is easy for other people to also look at what you saw and read in more detail if they want to.
@SunnyNight Even the Wikipedia article on the incident that killed Robert Peabody says he was exposed to 7 Sieverts. Not 100 Sieverts like Slav claims.
I agree to that the Cecil Keley story wasn’t the end of what the doctors did to him. It is a lot more scary when you read it they used his body for research and spreader parts around the US and his brain in a jar of mayonnaise. They use his own cells to inject into other people to see what radiation can do to a person without telling them. It made the story of the body snatchers of los almos and it is a great read of what someone can do and get away with it.
Sometimes you have to take wikipedia with a grain of salt but the information on nuclear technology in it is actually quite well covered and accurate. Almost as if it has been written by people with inside information about the subject, hmmm...
i hate people painting oushi’s story as his family and scientists torturing him over and over, he wanted to see his family again and his family wanted to see him again. there was no malice, it’s just his family wanting him to survive and scientists listening to them and wanting to see what he would be like if he survived.
I'm so glad the myths and sensationalism surrounding Ouchi have finally started to be debunked. I knew of his story before it became common knowledge, and saw from the beginning how badly skewed it was for the sake of sensationalism. All of this can be traced back to a single poorly-researched pop-science article.
and I had a radiation dose of just 0.2 Sv during my last cancer scan , for 48 hours I had to keep away from pregnant women and children and flush toilet twice each time
@@alexmartin3143 oh. the reply of me memtioning the previous reply a few minutes ago which said more about it was censored by youtiube has also dissapeared but this wasnt censored. Sorry youtube censors it I can t tell you any more
@@alexmartin3143 sorry youtube keeps censoring comments I make mentioning how youtube censors comments I make about it censoring comments, after having censored the original content to verify your question which I've now forgotten anyway because of continual youtube comment censorship
Some are still hidden in the public eye in China and Russia to this day. Majak incident in the 1950's was kept in secret for so long. A catastrophe nuclear disaster only bettered by the Chernobyl disaster and Fukushima disaster.
Some people got way more radiation but he definitely suffered the most. He was kept alive for 83 whole days while he basically melted from the inside out
Interesting to learn about these incidents. I knew some of them, but had no idea about the more severe ones. I actually heard of a man in the Soviet Union who stumbled in the way of a particle from a synchrotron. He was exposed to 2,000-3,000 grays of radiation but was lucky enough to survive due to the particle conveniently missing vital parts of his brain.
8:57 'Five minutes later, Boris Korchilov stumbled out of the reactor room, tore off his gas mask and vomit.' Receiving 54 sieverts of radioactive exposure, Korchilov died 6 days later.
Thank you for adding captions on your videos. I have APD and I struggle to understand people even speaking in my home country, but accents are a whole other challenge. I love your videos and I'm so glad I'm able to watch them!!
The list omits the case of Anatoli Bugorski, who survived an accident with a particle accelerator despite a radiation exposure of more than 2000 Sieverts. The accident happened in 1978 and he is still alive. He was apparently lucky that he was exposed to pure and very localized radiation - which ended up paralyzing the left half of his face, but didn't damage the rest of his body, so contrary to expectations he recovered.
I can't thank you enough for this video! I've been trying to tell some family members about these incidents and here you have them all together(with some extras) with better details than I could tell them. Thank you!
The plutonium sphere accident is actually kinda even worse than it initially sounded. Tests done recently, like 2015 or later, showed that his hand was actually part of the accident. If the hand were not there the core would klikely not have gone critical...sad
this new template is pretty good, it doesnt use those suspense separate parts, it still really good video Also how you slided the sponsor was really good tho
I appreciate your video format, you know, sticking to the point. You dont start the video off by talking about your dog, and what you did on vacation. And you dont end the video with nonsense. Thank you, and prosper.
I've been a viewer since 2019, Your channel has come a long way. The amount of research you do on these topics is phenomenal, you deserve more recognition for sure.
To be radioactive and having been exposed to radiation are completely different things! Criticality depends directly on the position of the beryllium reflector, so is not reached within some time after it's closed A moderator does not slow or stop a nuclear chain reaction, on the contrary. You don't need NordVPN to learn those things.
The Japanese scientists and doctors were not the ones who kept Hisashi Ouchi alive 'against his will', it was because of Hisashi's wife and her insistence on resuscitation, she had wanted her husband to live until at least the first day of 2000 since he had been so excited about it when he was still conscious.
Just a quick note the beryllium covers over the demon core at los alamos were reflectors, not shields. Neutron shields are alloys or elements that can absorb neutrons preventing a criticality accident, which is what happened when the two beryllium cores snapped shut.
There was one man who, in 1999, reportedly died just thirty minutes after exposure to radiation when he and five others tried to steal radioactive cobalt from a chemical factory, and he held the cobalt for “just a few minutes”. Since he died before anybody could examine him, the exact amount of radiation he was exposed to is unknown, though I think he was exposed to even more radiation than anyone mentioned in the video!
Mr Slav keep going with ur videos man,all the information you bring is so entertaining and fun to listen to,your voice is great,success on your channel!
Your wrong, they didn’t keep ouchi alive against his will, that’s literally what they had to do, to attempt to save his life for the sake of his family, who were clinging onto any kind of hope available
Wow, this video is very informative. I've heard about Cecil Keley, Louis Slotin and Robert Peabody (may they all rest in peace, death by irradiation is horrendous), but I did not heard about Boris Korchilov and Vasilev critically accidents, although I've heard about other critically accidents like Chazma Bay in Vladivostok where reactor in Soviet submarine K-431 malfunctioned (similar accident as in Boris Korchilov case but exact data of irriadiation are not commonly known) or Alexandr Zakharov in Sarov (this guy received 48 sieverts). Thanks for this video, today I've learned something new.
ive been watching a lot of nuclear stories and your channel for random videos for the past few weeks. what a coincidence you just uploaded one about nuclear incidents! great video man thank you
Lelechenko actually received his dose in two fractions. First time it was in the night of accident. Then he received intravenous solution and felt some improvement so he came back to NPP. That's when his overall dose exceeded 20 Sv. Boris Korchilov spent most of the time in reactor room: over an hour. His absorbed dose wasn't even the highest: 9.6 Gy. His colleague Yury Ordochkin received 9.9 Gy but "only" 30 Sv.
@@elric5371 No. He received 54 Sv, not Gy. 1 Gy of fast neutrons does more biological damage than 1 Gy of slow neutrons. Slow neutrons in their turn are considerably more damaging than gamma.
@@dymytryruban4324 yeah but when equating doses between Gy and Sv gamma is equal, so therefore 1Sv of gamma rays is equivalent to 1Gy of gamma rays this is the same for converting between roentgen too.
an honourable mention for Anatoli Bugorski, who in 1978 was accidentally shot in the head with a 76 GeV proton beam from a particle accelerator and he described it as a flash brighter than a thousands suns. he received a massive dose of radiation to his head, although that's a bit different than being exposed to criticality accidents or nuclear reactors. he survived and is still alive at the age of 81, but the accident was not without consequences including seizures, losing hearing in his left ear and the left part of his face being paralyzed. I've read that a factor in his survival was that the proton beam went straight through his head, since by stopping inside his head it could have given him a far higher dose of radiation, where it stopped similarly to radiation therapy.
One man by the name of John Johnson woke up one morning, walking to the kitchen to get his morning cereal. Upon opening the fridge, he quickly discovered he had no milk. This caused a criticality event.
There is more: 900 sv were received by crew of 10 submarine sailors in Chazhma bay on 10 of August 1985 during refueling (Soviet submarine K-431 accident)
To be clear Hisashi Ouchi wasn't kept alive "for the name of science" or because his family made the doctors keep reviving him. They both kept him alive and all genuinely believed he would recover. It wasn't until the end the doctors told the family that he was basically brain dead and the family understood. The whole science experiment thing is something youtubers put up to make it seem more exciting and nefarious, but going from first hand accounts they all hoped he'd recover.
It seems that Peabody's exposure in Sieverts have been converted from a claim that he received "10.000 rads". However, this claim seems to come from nowhere, and all I could find was an article claiming he actually received 700 rems. For Slotin, there are a lot of different calculations, and apparently most of them place the dosage much lower than suggested in the video. It would be good to see sources for the claims in the video, because it appears to be very sensationalized, with little information about the cases.
Everything in the vid is true and correct, apart from Slotin as he received 11.1 Sieverts, Peabody received 88 Sieverts, not 700, the article that states it was 700 is full of misinformation and comes from the ring he was wearing, other more eligible sources like looking at unscear reports of affects of ARS, are more eligible, plus 700 rem is not going to kill someone in 49 hours, more like 49 days. The symptoms Peabody experienced are also neruovascular based which occur with doses greater than 5000 rem.
The dose for Peabody from the official report on the incident has a highest estimate of 190 sieverts, he definitely received over 100mi can link it to you if u like.
Aleksandr Lelechenko is a hero. A real hero. As bad as Chernobyl was, it would have been so much worse without his brave actions. His name should be remembered forever. I remember reading about him years ago. Its a shame we in the West didnt learn much about him until roughly 20-25 years ago
It's not one of the most radioactive stories. But the story of the guy who drank so much radium water as medication. To the point his jaw fell off and his body was decomposing before he was dead, would be an interesting story to cover. Though I just found your channel. So I don't know if you already covered that. Great content btw.
It was Ouchi's family who pushed the doctors to keep him alive. The doctors were trying to prepare the family for the inevitable, but they wanted him to live. There were NO scientists involved in his case that were trying to keep him alive for experiments.
