Documentary about Tokaimura Nuclear Accident (with English subtitles)
(Please turn the English subtitles on.) (To see both the Japanese transcript and the English translation, click here .) The ICU of the Acute Medicine department in the Tokyo University Hospital. The treatment that took place here about a year and a half ago was unprecedented in the world. He is Dr. Kazuhiko Maekawa. He has been involved in the emergency care for about 30 years. It was the first time that he encountered a patient who had received a massive amount of radiation. "In the accident that occurred at the Tokaimura plant of JCO, three workers were exposed to radiation..." The criticality accident occurred at the nuclear fuel processing facility in Tokai village and two workers were killed by a heavy exposure to radiation. He is Hisashi Ouchi, the first victim of nuclear accidents in Japan. He was exposed to radiation that was about 20,000 times more than the permissible annual limit for ordinary people. This team was in charge of the treatment of Ouchi...