978, a Soviet scientist named Anatoli Bugorski encountered an accident while performing maintenance work on the U-70 synchronous accelerator.
Anatoli Bugorski
A beam of high-energy particle beam with radiating energy up to 2 million mSv (millimeter) directly penetrated his head at a speed close to the speed of light. Radiation energy such as
can kill Anatoly at least 500 times on the spot, but it is incredible that he not only did not die on the spot, but also lived to this day.
Anatoly was shot in the head by a beam of high-energy particles
What's even more incredible is that is now 80 years old, and his left face, which was penetrated by high-energy particles, even gained an "old-out face". There were a lot of wrinkles on the right face of , but his left face still looked the same.
What's going on? How harmful is
radiation?
The most typical nuclear radiation accident that actually happened in history is the Chernobyl accident in 986.
Chernobyl
Time returns to 986 in the early morning of April 26, 2019, accompanied by a loud bang, the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded.
explosion caused the diffusion of a large amount of radiation substances in the nuclear reactor, and within a radial range of more than 30 kilometers, they were contaminated by radiation dust.
Chernobyl accident site
There are statistics to show that the dose of radiation released in Chernobyl accident is at least about 400 times that of the atomic bomb that exploded in Hiroshima, Japan that year.
The number of people who died of excessive radiation in this disaster reached 170,000. There were 3.2 million people who survived the disaster by chance, but they also suffered excessive radiation.
Chernobyl accident victims
In addition to large-scale nuclear radiation accidents, small radiation accidents have also occurred many times in my country. The radiation accident occurred in Shanxi worker Zhang Youchang in 1992, and is the most typical case.
Time back to November 1992, Zhang Youchang worked as usual at the construction site, but accidentally He found a metal cylinder in the corner. The most special thing about this metal cylinder is that it still shines with faint light.
Metal cylinder
So with curiosity, Zhang Youchang picked up this "baby" and put it in his pocket. After returning home, he also showed off the "baby" he found to his family.
However, what he could not imagine until his death was that the "baby" of turned out to be the extremely radioactive cobalt 60.
cobalt60
Due to excessive radiation, Zhang Youchang developed symptoms such as dizziness, vomiting, and skin ulceration that day.
and his family then developed the same symptoms.
After a long period of rescue failed, finally Zhang Youchang, Zhang Youchang's father Zhang Mingliang, and Zhang Youchang's second brother Zhang Youshuang passed away one after another. Fortunately, his wife Zhang Fang finally survived.
Doctor only learned from Zhang Fang that the culprit of that caused their family to get sick was actually the "baby" picked up by Zhang Youchang.
This treasure is nothing else, it is cobalt 60...
Why can Anatoly survive?
is headshot by a high-energy particle beam with radiation energy up to 2 million mSv (mSiv) . Normally, even the Iron Man has basically no hope of survival, let alone ordinary people like Anatoly.
short-term high-dose radiation medical response
However, he not only survived, but also survived to this day, and even gained an "old-out face". The incident is simply incredible. The incident of
also aroused the interest of countless scientists at that time.
But at that time, this matter was not properly explained.
Anatoli Bugorski
Until later scientists proposed such a possible explanation.
says that Anatoly survived, mainly because the high-energy particle beam that bombarded his head belonged to high-LET ray .
High LET rays and low LET rays
Because rays pass through organisms and release energy, they will first generate Bragg spike , which will only release a large amount of energy after the Bragg spike.
However, has penetrated the past because the high-energy particles in the high-LET rays are close to the speed of light.
Prague peak
is also precisely because of this, although hits Anatoly's high-energy particle beam with a radiation energy of up to 2 million mSv (millive), the radiation energy remaining in Anatoly's body is actually not much.
This is also the fundamental reason why he survived.
written at the end
Although Anatoli survived by chance, his body was still more or less affected by radiation.
For example, his left ear, due to the high-energy particle beam breaking through his head, it damaged his nerves, which eventually led to the loss of hearing in his left ear.
Anatoli Bugorski
Of course, the most obvious thing is his "ageless face".
Although his left half of his face did not grow old, he also lost his expression. To put it bluntly, it was because of nerve damage that caused facial paralysis on his left face...
