The 83-Day Patient On September 30, 1999, three Japanese technicians used buckets. They poured uranium into the wrong tank. A blue flash filled the room. Hisashi Ouchi absorbed 17 sieverts — his chromosomes literally shattered. Doctors revived him through cardiac arrests for 83 days. He had begged them to stop.
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