Quite a contrast to 134 Chernobyl workers in the first few hours recieving 800m/Sv-16000m/sv.
Wow!...wow....I knew exposure had to be terrible but I never saw the numbers before. Somewhere I bookmarked an article detailing first person accounts from that time period. One was the wife of a fireman (sound like one of the 800-1600m/Sv guys you talked about. He was in a hospital you couldn’t get in unless you had a special badge - his wife bribed her way in to see him. They told her we was so contaminated that he was a ‘living reactor’ or ‘human reactor’. She would learn later that as this hospital received highly irradiated rescue workers - doctors and nurses who worked at the hospital were abruptly dying and being replaced. It’s likely most of those 134 workers made their way to the ‘nearest’ hospital where her husband was and basically flooded the place with contamination. I can’t imagine it...