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TIL Hisashi Ouchi a technician working at Japanese Nuclear Fuel Conversion was exposed to beyond fatal amounts of radiation, in a way that none of his chromosomes could be identified after the accident. Still, doctors managed to keep him alive for 83 days against his wishes.

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