SOME KNOWN INCIDENTS INVOLVING IRRADIATION OF PEOPLE
The following examples give an indication of the range of acute doses
of radiation received by human heings and the treatment given:
Los Alamos - During 1945 ten persons were accidentally exposed to
radiation during two accidents,
One person received 2,000
©'S and died in
nine days, another received about 600 T'S and died in twenty-six days, and
a third develoned cataracts in both eyes after three years.
The seven other
people apparently recovered,
Windscale ~ On October 10, 1957, a British nuclear reactor sprayed
radioactive matter (1/31) 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,
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.
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