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Newspaper of the time reporting the accident |
(Translated and compiled by Saya)
24: Anonymous 2006/10/15(Sun) 02:09:41 ID:lLO+L+yO0
Tokaimura criticality accident, triggered by JCO
Tokaimura nuclear accident in 1999
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura_nuclear_accident
The worst civilian nuclear radiation accident in Japan prior to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of 2011.
969 :Anonymous:2006/10/15(日) 01:53:32 ID:yo9f4S3g0
>>960
From what I heard, the workers's bodies were severely damaged by neutron
and lost all regenerative ability
The report spoke of necrosis in some parts of the bodies and they died of heart attacks?
981 :Anonymous:2006/10/15(Sun) 01:55:08 ID:LRvDvToC0
>>969
I saw the pictures.
His body was a total wreck but he was still alive.
Really horrible...
A black-and-white photo of the faces of one of the victims in the course of his treatment:
*WARNING contains graphic image*
http://siustoreroom.blogspot.com/2018/09/tokaimura-accident-victim.html
28: Anonymous: 2006/10/15(Sun) 12:54:51 ID:iyomPQM50
>>24
Everyone would agree that they would rather die than suffer this way.
Right after the exposure to radiation, he had some blisters, but otherwise he looked normal.
But being exposed to high radiation doses shatter your DNA and as a result your body stops generating new cells.
The brain and heart cells have slower metabolism, so they are the last ones to be affected by radiation damage.
So even though your body is ruined beyond repair, you are still fully conscious, and since your heart is still working you stay alive.
They injected a large dosage of morphine - beyond the limit of what a human body can normally endure - into his body, but it had no effect on him.
Everyday, he was given litres after litres of blood transfusion and had 2 to 3 kg of diarrhea (his internal organs were dissolving and coming out of his body as fluids).
His heart had been beating as fast as someone who is doing the 100 metre sprint, ever since the accident.
It meant the modern medical science had advanced to the point that it could keep someone in such a condition alive, but that wasn't the sole reason why his life was prolonged.
He was regarded as a "rare case" and became the object of study, falling prey to eager scientists and researchers, and because those people kept flocking in from all over the world to observe him, they couldn't let him die even if they wanted to.
When I think about how it was all caused by the sloppy supervision, I can't help but feel human beings are by far scarier than any paranormal beings.
Those who had been irradiated cannot even be allowed to be laid in rest in ordinary graves. I can only wish them R.I.P.