Tokaimura nuclear accidents - Wikipedia Masato Shinohara, 40, was transported to the same facility He underwent radical cancer treatments, numerous successful skin grafts, and a transfusion from congealed umbilical cord blood (to boost stem cell count)
The Tokaimura Nuclear Accident Of 1999 That Killed Two Men On the morning of September 30, 1999, Hisashi Ouchi, Masato Shinohara, and Yutaka Yokokawa were preparing uranium-enriched fuel at a plant near Tōkai, Japan, when they triggered a nuclear reaction that killed Ouchi and Shinohara and exposed hundreds of others to high levels of radiation
Hisashi Ouchi and Masato Shinohara - I Cant Believe Its NonFiction Ouchi and Shinohara were mixing a batch of fuel containing uranium in a stainless steel tank while Yokokawa was sitting at a desk 4 meters (just over 13 feet) away Suddenly, there was a blue flash as the mixture experienced a nuclear reaction emitting neutron radiation and gamma-rays
Second nuclear worker dies in Japan - World Socialist Web Site Masato Shinohara, aged 40, died on the morning of April 27 in the University of Tokyo Hospital Along with two other workers, he had been exposed to massive doses of radiation during last
The Tokaimura Criticality Accident of 1999 Once the nitric acid solution was added to the uranium and the criticality began, neutrons and gamma-rays were emitted, and led to the eventual deaths of the workers Hisashi Ouchi and Masato Shinohara [2]
Nuclear workers most gruesome death ever as he cried blood and . . . Hisashi's colleague Masato Shinohara and supervisor Yutaka Yokokawa poured 16kg of uranium into a processing vessel, significantly exceeding the safe limit of 2 4kg The outcome was an uncontrolled nuclear reaction that immediately engulfed the facility with lethal radiation