Man Receives Highest Dose of Nuclear Radiation - This Is What Happened To Him

Working in a nuclear power plant has to be one of the world's most dangerous jobs, and in today's new video we'll show you exactly why nuclear energy is so powerful and so feared. We're talking about the scientists who received the highest dose of radiation in human history in a tragic nuclear accident. How long can you survive after being dosed with such a heavy amount of radiation? Watch this new video to hear about the true story of the scientists who lived through nuclear accident, but were forever changed. Was this an experiment gone wrong or a routine accident?

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[galliumgames]

The guy probably experienced levels of pain far worse than anyone else in history.

[emingmann]

"The men stagger backward, blinded and dazed."
*shows the scientists nodding their heads and smiling*

[alexey]

It's interesting how almost everyone has tried to misconstrue this story when his family actually told the doctors to do whatever they could to keep him alive. When his heart stopped three times in one day, they pleaded with the doctors to bring him back, each time doing so and being successful for a short time.

[baguette]

The doctors weren’t using him for experiments, it was the family’s wish for them to keep ouchi alive in the hope he will survive. The doctors and nurses def got trauma from this experiments and really felt bad for him. If you want to blame someone, blame his family.

[jesuschamorro]

This video is inaccurate. The story is much more horrifying and complex then this video makes it out to be. JCO facility technicians Hisashi Ouchi, Masato Shinohara, and Yutaka Yokokawa were speeding up the last few steps of the fuel/conversion process to meet shipping requirements. It was JCO's first batch of fuel for that reactor in three years; no proper qualification and training requirements were established to prepare for the process. To save processing time and convenience, the team mixed the chemicals in stainless-steel buckets. The workers followed JCO operating manual guidance in this process but were unaware it was not approved by the STA. Under correct operating procedure, uranyl nitrate would be stored inside a buffer tank and gradually pumped into the precipitation tank in 2.4 kg increments

Hiroshi Ouchi, one of these workers, was transferred to the University of Tokyo Hospital Emergency Room, three days after the accident. Dr. Maekawa and his staff initially thought that Ouchi looked relatively well for a person exposed to such radiation levels. He could talk, and only his right hand was a little swollen with redness. However, his condition gradually weakened as the radioactivity broke down the chromosomes in his cells.

The doctors were at a loss as to what to do. There were very few precedents and proven medical treatments for the victims of radiation poisoning. Less than 20 nuclear accidents had occurred in the world to that point, and most of those happened 30 years ago. This book documents the following 83 days of treatment until his passing, with detailed descriptions and explanations of the radiation poisoning.

It was in fact this family that wanted the doctors to do everything possible to try to save him. Accounts of nurses and doctors wondering if this was moral or ethical have been recorded. There is a book on amazon about this called "A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness" retelling this story and all its horrors. It does Hiroshi Ouchi and his family a disservice to tell his story so inaccurately.

[simonabbott]

They basically made him feel like he's burning in acid for a month before he died the poor poor soul RIP

[Imonezy]

You make it seem as if this happened extremely quick, his skin didn’t start to deteriorate until almost day 20 and he actually asked to be saved

[flashfire]

Those doctors just tried to save Ouchi since that’s what his family wanted. So the doctors didn’t have any other choice and are not to blame.

[theonlyakuma_]

They should’ve just let him die. That’s torture

[scuffedgod]

"Only human being to live with no dna"What a record to be broken !

[redgreen]

So much is untrue in this video:
-Ouchi’s foot/leg was NOT removed in any way. If it had been he would’ve bled out as his blood was unable to clot. The medical team decided against amputations for this reason (I’m guessing this comes from that fake photo online supposedly of Ouchi with his limbs, with one leg missing, hanging and covered in blood)
-The medical staff did not “decide” he would be a guinea pig, his family and Ouchi himself at one point were very much in favor of treatment up until they were told there was nothing more that could be done. Meaning his doctors DID let him die. They endlessly contemplated ending his treatment but Ouchi’s family encouraged them to continue
-The skin on his back side was not effected in the way described. It was actually mostly intact until he died.Additionally, the skin grafts expected to fail. It was an attempt to keep those fluids in as much as possible.
-His skin did not start to peel like that until AFTER he arrived in Tokyo. The team was shocked by how normal he looked upon arrival.
-Ouchi was given extreme sedatives and painkillers during this time. It’s not as if he wasn’t suffering but all videos on this ignore this fact.

[smileymissile]

he actually died the moment the radiation passed through him. his body is starting to rot like a corpse but he was alive to see it.

[scottdc]

There are so many errors with this video it’s incredible. They had mSV doses, not SV as reported. They also weren’t “highly trained” nuclear technicians, they were low level employees doing what they were told to do by managers who had removed safeguards designed to stop this happening. The pretty cartoons are nice but getting the facts rights is a fundamental of telling the story.

[iviaverick]

59 days later, the dudes body is literally decomposing but his heart is still beating and they are still trying to keep him alive. That's just messed up.

[Clbull]

Peaked Interest did a far better video on this story that explained how workplace negligence led to Ouchi's death. Plant workers were under immense pressure to produce rods with much higher uranium quantities to speed up the process, because they were behind on production. This among other corner cutting measures made the three workers take lethal or dangerous levels of radiation. This fact is glossed over at the very end of this video.

Also, the doctors didn't really make the decision to try experimental treatments. Ouchi's family insisted that they keep him alive via any means possible and they simply couldn't let him die without a Do Not Resuscitate order signed by the family. They insisted that the family visit every day so they could see the reality of what Ouchi was going through and that this could hopefully change their mind.

The doctors knew that he was a dead man and that any treatment would most likely prolong his suffering. They did it anyway because the treatments were experimental and if they didn't respect the family's wishes by keeping Ouchi alive they'd face criminal charges for allowing him to die.

A DNR wasn't signed until 81 days after Ouchi's admission. He died two days later when his heart stopped again.

[gtykyiq]

FYI, the doctors are not the bad guys they are making them seem to be. The real reason why they kept him alive and resuscitated him after his cardiac arrest is because, in Japan, doctors are legally required to resuscitate a patient if they do not have a do-not-resuscitate consent form signed by the patient's family. The medical staff themselves kept advising his family to sign the form so Ouchi can stop being in pain. It was only on his 81st day in the hospital that Ouchi's family finally agreed to sign said form. On the 83rd day, he had another cardiac arrest and the doctors did not resuscitate him anymore.

[akashrajkishore]

This video must be titled “How doctors tortured a dying man”.

[WarInHD]

There’s actual pictures of him on google, that man died in the most inhumane way possible

[backstage_ghoul]

Actually, I think the doctors kept him alive at his family's request. The doctors tried every single medical treatment, including ones that were still in testing, just to keep him alive in the slim hope that he might live and that he can see his family. I believe the doctors had no ill intentions, in fact, I think they were deeply hurt by the trauma he had to go through.

[Wiktor]

This guys needs to revise his facts, they're not very accurate.