Thus confirming that it's actually quiet a difficult problem, important given that quiet a few in the comments on the video suggested they should have definitely knew thing kind of thing off the cuff.
The U-70 did, iirc, 70 GeV. A bit under a hundred times less energy per proton, and with an unknown number number of total protons. (Technical data is a bit light on the ground for a 50 year old Soviet particle accelerator.)
That's incredible, poor guy. It doesn't sound like he got a great deal of compensation, either - I'd be fairly hacked off if my face was half-melted off because of someone else's / a machine's incompetence.
He is able to function perfectly well, except for the fact that he has occasional complex partial seizures and rare tonic-clonic seizures.
How the hell is that perfectly well!? Sounds like something out of a Monty Python sketch ... oh just some small seizures, but he's fine really. It's perfectly safe to stick your head in a proton beam kids. Perfectly safe.
Really interesting though, I was under the impression the beams needed a very strong magnetic field to remain stable. How come he was able to stick his head in one?
Right. This is on par with Phineas Gage - considering that they both had something ridiculous pierce their brain, and shouldn't have expected to survive, they both did pretty okay.
Maybe related are 'criticality accidents', where by accident a critical mass is reached (either by bringing two masses of fissile material together, or by enclosing a fissile mass by a neutron reflector), and someone gets a high dose of radiation, often with lethal result.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski#Particle_accel...
How the hell is that perfectly well!? Sounds like something out of a Monty Python sketch ... oh just some small seizures, but he's fine really. It's perfectly safe to stick your head in a proton beam kids. Perfectly safe.
Really interesting though, I was under the impression the beams needed a very strong magnetic field to remain stable. How come he was able to stick his head in one?
Which is pretty good, since the initial medical reaction was to watch him die.
Personal Chernobyl Of Analtoli Bugorski
http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/gdobserver/post132042939/
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1725592
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident or http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1106_scr.pd... for a report about the accident in Sarov, where a physicist lost his life.