SOME KNOWN INCIDENTS INVOLVING IRRADIATION OF PEOPLE The following examples give an indication of the range of acute doses of radiation received hy human beings and the treatment given: Los Alamos - During 1945 ten persons were. accidentally exposed to radiation during two accidents. nine days, One person received 2,000 ©'S and died in another received about 600 F'S and died in twenty-six days, a third develomed cataracts in both eyes after three years, and The seven other people apparently recovered, Windscale ~ On October 10, 1957, a British nuclear reactor sprayed radioactive matter (y232) on the nearby countryside. area was found to be slightly radioactive. Later, milk in that No injuries were reported according to the source of information. Oak Ridge ~- On June 16, makes radioactive material, 1958, y an accident happened at a plant which It was determined that five men received 236 to 365 RADS and three men from 25 to 100 RADS. They suffered acute symptoms, but apparently returned to normal health, Yugoslavia - An atomic reactor accident near Belgrade, six men to very high gamma and neutron radiation, in 1958, exposed They suffered acute effects of the radiation and one of them, who received the highest exposure (the figure is not available), was given bone marrow injections but later died. Four others, who received less, were also given the injections which helped until their own bone marrow became active again. without injections. The sixth person recovered Expert opinion is divided as to whether bone marrow injections can help recovery from high exposure, ak ? 8 9010212