Written by: Sushant Nepal - 23044, Grade XII
Posted on: 21 March, 2023
At the time, when Hisashi Ouchi had arrived at the University of Tokyo Hospital after being exposed to the highest level of radiation of any human in history, doctors were astonished and stunned looking at him. The 35-year-old nuclear power plant technician had no white blood cells in him and thus, no immune system.
The nuclear accident happened before noon on Sept. 30, 1999, at the nuclear power plant in Tokaimura, Japan. With an explicit lack of safety measures and an abundance of fatal shortcuts, the Japan Nuclear Fuel Conversion Co. (JCO) told Ouchi and two other workers to mix a new batch of fuel. But the three men were untrained in the process and mixed their materials by hand. Then, they accidentally poured seven times the amount of uranium into an improper tank. Ouchi was standing directly over the vessel as Gamma rays flooded the room. While the plant and local villages were evacuated, Ouchi’s extraordinary suffering had just begun.
He was then kept in a special radiation ward to safeguard him from medical clinic borne microbes. Hisashi Ouchi leaked strange liquids from his body and sobbed for his mom. His only escape from the unbearable pain would be a last heart failure 83 long days after the incident. Ouchi's exposure was the most radiation that any person had at any point endured. He had been in immediate pain and could barely breathe. When he showed up at the clinic, he had as of now thrown up savagely and fallen oblivious. Hisashi Ouchi's radiation consumed his whole body, and his eyes were spilling blood. Most desperate was his absence of white platelets and the shortfall of a resistant reaction. Specialists put him in a unique ward to forestall contamination and surveyed the harm to his interior organs. After three days, he was moved to the University of Tokyo Hospital where progressive immature microorganism techniques were applied.
