World's most radioactive man cried blood for 83 days as skin melted in ordeal

DAILY STAR

A horror accident at a Japanese nuclear plant exposed one worker to the highest levels of radiation ever suffered by a human being.

Hisashi Ouchi was helping a colleague pour litres of uranium into a vat at the Tokaimura Nuclear Power Plant, having been asked to try and speed up the process to cut costs in 1999.

Normally done by a hydraulic pump, the use of their bare hands exposed the three men in the room to usually fatal radiation levels.

Almost immediately, Ouchi, who had received the highest level of radiation poisoning of the three, was in agony and could barely breathe.

He arrived at hospital having vomited violently and lost consciousness with doctor’s stunned to find that he had almost no white blood cells left.