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Aravind @Aldk86

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about 1 month ago

@India_AllSports Wow—I had no clue this was starting today. No real build up anywhere or no news about it also

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A 35-year-old Japanese nuclear technician walked into work on the morning of September 30, 1999. By the end of the day he had been exposed to the highest dose of radiation any human being has ever survived. His chromosomes were destroyed. His skin started falling off. His DNA could no longer copy itself. He should have been dead within a week. His doctors kept him alive for 83 days against his will. I read the actual medical records last night and could not stop thinking about it. His name was Hisashi Ouchi. The textbook story of nuclear accidents names Chernobyl. Names Fukushima. Names Three Mile Island. The big explosions. The evacuations. The reactors melting down on the evening news. The Ouchi case is none of those things. It is something far smaller, far more intimate, and in some ways far more disturbing. It is the story of one ordinary worker who was asked to pour uranium into a bucket, and a country that then refused to let him die for almost three months. Here is the story almost nobody tells you. Hisashi Ouchi was 35 years old, a former high school rugby player, married with a young son. He worked at a small uranium reprocessing facility in Tokaimura, about 80 miles northeast of Tokyo, run by a company called JCO. The plant converted uranium oxide into fuel for an experimental research reactor. The procedure for doing this safely was strict and slow. The uranium had to be mixed with nitric acid in a specific automated pump system, in carefully measured small batches, with multiple shielding layers between the workers and the material. The procedure existed because uranium in solution can, under the wrong conditions, suddenly start a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. The procedure was designed to make sure that never happened. JCO was behind on a delivery deadline. The company had quietly been instructing workers to skip steps. By the late 1990s, the official procedures had been replaced with what amounted to a homemade workflow. Workers were told to mix the uranium and nitric acid by hand, in stainless steel buckets, then pour it through a funnel into a precipitation tank. None of the three workers on duty that morning had been formally trained on what they were actually doing. None of them understood what critical mass was. On the morning of September 30, 1999, Ouchi stood on a small platform holding a funnel over the tank. His coworker Masato Shinohara poured uranium solution from a bucket through the funnel. Ouchi did this seven times. On the seventh bucket, the uranium in the tank reached critical mass. The room flashed blue. What the workers saw was Cherenkov radiation, the same blue glow that comes from the core of a nuclear reactor. A burst of gamma rays and neutrons passed through their bodies at the speed of light. The radiation alarm began screaming. Their supervisor yelled for them to run. Ouchi made it to the changing room before he began vomiting. He lost consciousness within minutes. When he was transferred to the University of Tokyo Hospital three days later, the doctors who examined him were quietly stunned. He was conscious. He could talk. He looked, at first glance, almost normal. Only his right hand, which had been closest to the tank, was swollen and red. Then the test results came back. His chromosomes were not damaged. They were destroyed. Scattered into fragments across every sample they took. The medical team had never seen anything like it. His body had received an estimated 17 sieverts of radiation. Eight sieverts is universally fatal. A normal lifetime exposure for a human being is around 0.1. The doctors understood, within hours of his arrival, that no human being was going to recover from what had happened to Ouchi's body. His bone marrow could no longer produce new cells. His skin would eventually slough off because the cells could not reproduce themselves to replace what wore away. His internal organs would gradually disintegrate. He had, in the most literal sense, been broken at the genetic level. The decision the doctors then made is the part of this story almost no journalist writes about clearly. They decided to keep him alive. His family agreed. The Japanese government wanted the medical data. The University of Tokyo Hospital had never had access to a patient with this level of radiation exposure, and never would again. Ouchi was placed in a special radiation ward. He was given multiple blood transfusions. He was given a peripheral blood stem cell transplant from his sister. He was hooked up to machines that breathed for him, machines that cleaned his blood, machines that supplied nutrients his digestive tract could no longer absorb. For 83 days, he was kept alive at the absolute edge of what modern medicine could do. Within the first two weeks, his skin began to come off. Not in patches. In sheets. Medical tape applied to his chest came off taking the underlying skin with it. The medical team began wrapping him in gauze that was changed constantly to keep him from being torn apart by his own dressings. By week three, his eyes leaked blood instead of tears. By week four, he was begging the doctors to stop. According to the Japanese medical book published later, he said clearly, more than once, "I can't take it anymore. I am not a guinea pig." The treatment continued. His heart stopped on day 59. The doctors resuscitated him. His family had instructed them to. His heart stopped again. They resuscitated him again. The cycle repeated. On December 21, 1999, after 83 days of treatment, Ouchi's organs finally collapsed in a way the machines could not compensate for. He died of multiple organ failure and cardiac arrest. His coworker Shinohara survived another seven months on the same treatment protocol, including an umbilical cord stem cell transplant, before dying on April 27, 2000. Their supervisor Yokokawa, who was further from the tank, survived with mild radiation sickness and was later charged with negligence. The detail that should disturb every reader is what came out in the public reports after both men died. The medical team had known, from the first chromosome test, that no recovery was possible. The 83 days of treatment Ouchi underwent were not a fight for his life. They were a controlled study of how a human body breaks down under maximum radiation exposure. The data collected during those 83 days is now in the standard medical literature on acute radiation syndrome. It is the most detailed record of human radiation death ever assembled. Every emergency response protocol for nuclear accidents in the world has been shaped by what the doctors learned from Ouchi's body. His suffering produced the knowledge. The knowledge was the reason the suffering was extended. The Japanese government overhauled its entire nuclear safety regime after Tokaimura. JCO was stripped of its license. The plant was permanently shut down. Six executives were eventually convicted of professional negligence. The procedures Ouchi had been told to use were retroactively classified as illegal. The shortcut had not even been authorized internally. It had spread through informal practice among undertrained workers trying to hit a deadline. The most uncomfortable line in the entire historical record is the one Ouchi himself reportedly said, repeatedly, in the second month of his treatment. He asked his doctors to let him die. They had already decided, weeks earlier, that they were not going to. His pain was not the variable they were optimizing. His data was. His family had been told he might recover. The doctors who knew better did not correct them. Some of the medical staff later said, in interviews after his death, that they had been unable to look at him by the end. The nurses who changed his dressings several times a day were rotated out frequently because of psychological trauma. There is a Japanese-language medical book about the case titled "A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness," published in 2002 by NHK Television. It is the most clinical document ever written about a human being's bodily disintegration. It is also one of the most haunting documents in the modern medical literature. The reason most people on the English-language internet have heard of Hisashi Ouchi is because gory leaked photographs of his body have been circulating online for over a decade. Most of those photographs are not actually him. The real medical photographs were never publicly released by the University of Tokyo Hospital. What has spread online is largely a combination of unrelated burn victims and digital manipulation. The actual story is far darker than the viral version, because the actual story is not a horror photograph. It is a moral question. When the technology exists to keep a person alive after their body has been destroyed, and the only reason to keep them alive is to gather data on the destruction, who is the experiment for? Walk into any hospital ethics committee today. Ask them where the line is between treatment and observation when a patient cannot recover and has asked to stop. Almost none of them will name Hisashi Ouchi as the case that should have set the standard. The case is taught in radiation medicine. It is almost never taught in medical ethics. Hisashi Ouchi did not die because of his accident. He died because the system that received his body after the accident was more interested in what his body could teach than in what his body was asking for. His name is rarely spoken in the country whose nuclear regulations were rewritten because of him. The plant where he worked is gone. The company is gone. The procedures he was told to follow are gone. He is buried in a small cemetery outside Tokyo. The medical knowledge his body produced is in every emergency response handbook in the world. He never agreed to be the textbook. He was right. The system was late. And every time a nuclear safety protocol saves a life today, it is paid for in 83 days of a man begging to be allowed to die in a hospital bed in Tokyo.

itsharmanjot's tweet photo. A 35-year-old Japanese nuclear technician walked into work on the morning of September 30, 1999. By the end of the day he had been exposed to the highest dose of radiation any human being has ever survived. His chromosomes were destroyed. His skin started falling off. His DNA could no longer copy itself. He should have been dead within a week.

His doctors kept him alive for 83 days against his will.

I read the actual medical records last night and could not stop thinking about it.

His name was Hisashi Ouchi.

The textbook story of nuclear accidents names Chernobyl. Names Fukushima. Names Three Mile Island. The big explosions. The evacuations. The reactors melting down on the evening news.

The Ouchi case is none of those things. It is something far smaller, far more intimate, and in some ways far more disturbing. It is the story of one ordinary worker who was asked to pour uranium into a bucket, and a country that then refused to let him die for almost three months.

Here is the story almost nobody tells you.

Hisashi Ouchi was 35 years old, a former high school rugby player, married with a young son. He worked at a small uranium reprocessing facility in Tokaimura, about 80 miles northeast of Tokyo, run by a company called JCO. The plant converted uranium oxide into fuel for an experimental research reactor.

The procedure for doing this safely was strict and slow. The uranium had to be mixed with nitric acid in a specific automated pump system, in carefully measured small batches, with multiple shielding layers between the workers and the material. The procedure existed because uranium in solution can, under the wrong conditions, suddenly start a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. The procedure was designed to make sure that never happened.

JCO was behind on a delivery deadline. The company had quietly been instructing workers to skip steps. By the late 1990s, the official procedures had been replaced with what amounted to a homemade workflow. Workers were told to mix the uranium and nitric acid by hand, in stainless steel buckets, then pour it through a funnel into a precipitation tank. None of the three workers on duty that morning had been formally trained on what they were actually doing. None of them understood what critical mass was.

On the morning of September 30, 1999, Ouchi stood on a small platform holding a funnel over the tank. His coworker Masato Shinohara poured uranium solution from a bucket through the funnel. Ouchi did this seven times.

On the seventh bucket, the uranium in the tank reached critical mass.

The room flashed blue.

What the workers saw was Cherenkov radiation, the same blue glow that comes from the core of a nuclear reactor. A burst of gamma rays and neutrons passed through their bodies at the speed of light. The radiation alarm began screaming. Their supervisor yelled for them to run.

Ouchi made it to the changing room before he began vomiting. He lost consciousness within minutes.

When he was transferred to the University of Tokyo Hospital three days later, the doctors who examined him were quietly stunned. He was conscious. He could talk. He looked, at first glance, almost normal. Only his right hand, which had been closest to the tank, was swollen and red.

Then the test results came back.

His chromosomes were not damaged. They were destroyed. Scattered into fragments across every sample they took. The medical team had never seen anything like it. His body had received an estimated 17 sieverts of radiation. Eight sieverts is universally fatal. A normal lifetime exposure for a human being is around 0.1.

The doctors understood, within hours of his arrival, that no human being was going to recover from what had happened to Ouchi's body. His bone marrow could no longer produce new cells. His skin would eventually slough off because the cells could not reproduce themselves to replace what wore away. His internal organs would gradually disintegrate. He had, in the most literal sense, been broken at the genetic level.

The decision the doctors then made is the part of this story almost no journalist writes about clearly.

They decided to keep him alive.

His family agreed. The Japanese government wanted the medical data. The University of Tokyo Hospital had never had access to a patient with this level of radiation exposure, and never would again. Ouchi was placed in a special radiation ward. He was given multiple blood transfusions. He was given a peripheral blood stem cell transplant from his sister. He was hooked up to machines that breathed for him, machines that cleaned his blood, machines that supplied nutrients his digestive tract could no longer absorb.

For 83 days, he was kept alive at the absolute edge of what modern medicine could do.

Within the first two weeks, his skin began to come off. Not in patches. In sheets. Medical tape applied to his chest came off taking the underlying skin with it. The medical team began wrapping him in gauze that was changed constantly to keep him from being torn apart by his own dressings. By week three, his eyes leaked blood instead of tears. By week four, he was begging the doctors to stop. According to the Japanese medical book published later, he said clearly, more than once, "I can't take it anymore. I am not a guinea pig."

The treatment continued.

His heart stopped on day 59. The doctors resuscitated him. His family had instructed them to. His heart stopped again. They resuscitated him again. The cycle repeated.

On December 21, 1999, after 83 days of treatment, Ouchi's organs finally collapsed in a way the machines could not compensate for. He died of multiple organ failure and cardiac arrest. His coworker Shinohara survived another seven months on the same treatment protocol, including an umbilical cord stem cell transplant, before dying on April 27, 2000. Their supervisor Yokokawa, who was further from the tank, survived with mild radiation sickness and was later charged with negligence.

The detail that should disturb every reader is what came out in the public reports after both men died.

The medical team had known, from the first chromosome test, that no recovery was possible. The 83 days of treatment Ouchi underwent were not a fight for his life. They were a controlled study of how a human body breaks down under maximum radiation exposure. The data collected during those 83 days is now in the standard medical literature on acute radiation syndrome. It is the most detailed record of human radiation death ever assembled. Every emergency response protocol for nuclear accidents in the world has been shaped by what the doctors learned from Ouchi's body.

His suffering produced the knowledge. The knowledge was the reason the suffering was extended.

The Japanese government overhauled its entire nuclear safety regime after Tokaimura. JCO was stripped of its license. The plant was permanently shut down. Six executives were eventually convicted of professional negligence. The procedures Ouchi had been told to use were retroactively classified as illegal. The shortcut had not even been authorized internally. It had spread through informal practice among undertrained workers trying to hit a deadline.

The most uncomfortable line in the entire historical record is the one Ouchi himself reportedly said, repeatedly, in the second month of his treatment.

He asked his doctors to let him die.

They had already decided, weeks earlier, that they were not going to. His pain was not the variable they were optimizing. His data was. His family had been told he might recover. The doctors who knew better did not correct them. Some of the medical staff later said, in interviews after his death, that they had been unable to look at him by the end. The nurses who changed his dressings several times a day were rotated out frequently because of psychological trauma.

There is a Japanese-language medical book about the case titled "A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness," published in 2002 by NHK Television. It is the most clinical document ever written about a human being's bodily disintegration. It is also one of the most haunting documents in the modern medical literature.

The reason most people on the English-language internet have heard of Hisashi Ouchi is because gory leaked photographs of his body have been circulating online for over a decade. Most of those photographs are not actually him. The real medical photographs were never publicly released by the University of Tokyo Hospital. What has spread online is largely a combination of unrelated burn victims and digital manipulation. The actual story is far darker than the viral version, because the actual story is not a horror photograph. It is a moral question.

When the technology exists to keep a person alive after their body has been destroyed, and the only reason to keep them alive is to gather data on the destruction, who is the experiment for?

Walk into any hospital ethics committee today. Ask them where the line is between treatment and observation when a patient cannot recover and has asked to stop. Almost none of them will name Hisashi Ouchi as the case that should have set the standard. The case is taught in radiation medicine. It is almost never taught in medical ethics.

Hisashi Ouchi did not die because of his accident.

He died because the system that received his body after the accident was more interested in what his body could teach than in what his body was asking for.

His name is rarely spoken in the country whose nuclear regulations were rewritten because of him. The plant where he worked is gone. The company is gone. The procedures he was told to follow are gone.

He is buried in a small cemetery outside Tokyo.

The medical knowledge his body produced is in every emergency response handbook in the world.

He never agreed to be the textbook.

He was right. The system was late.

And every time a nuclear safety protocol saves a life today, it is paid for in 83 days of a man begging to be allowed to die in a hospital bed in Tokyo.

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தமிழ்நாடு அரசியலில் முதல் முறையாக வட இந்திய ஆங்கில ஊடகத்திடம் இந்தியில் பேட்டி அளிக்கும் தவெக MLA இதுதான் தொடக்கம். மோடியே இங்கு வந்தால் கூட ஆங்கிலத்தில் தான் பேச வேண்டும் என்ற நிலையை உருவாக்கினோம் ஆனால் இன்று..

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말레이시아 완전히 재앙이네…😱😱

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Aravind @Aldk86

5 months ago

Both #CSK and #Indian cricket needs a batsman who can bowl... They need to groom Ayush mhatre into that role..

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Aravind @Aldk86

9 months ago

@Airtel_Presence Still the issue is not resolved.. how many times I have call to get this fixed

Aravind @Aldk86

9 months ago

Hi @Airtel_ Presence: you can not cut the outgoing calls and then say something went wrong and to fix it, you can't give a non-committal answer on how long it will take to fix. you are robbing the money from customers and not providing proper services ..

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9 months ago

@arivomkadaioffi Any suggestions for mini UPS for wifi routers ?

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10 months ago

வானம் வசப்படும் யோகேஸ்வரி 💐💐💐 வாழ்த்துகள். #DravidianModel #DaresToDream

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12 months ago

@rajeshkmoorthy @aruncoolz @babybillion_ @arivomkadaioffi Is there any article or video in good bees ?

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about 1 year ago

@sriramptr @siddaramaiah @blrcitytraffic You can reach faster if you walk 😉

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about 1 year ago

@UC_Assist DMed details

Aravind @Aldk86

about 1 year ago

Hi @urbancompany_UC , why should a customer suffer because you support team and technical team doesn't talk to each other? You put simply on hold and move on, why it is hard for you pull everyone in single call and sort it out, either tell me you can fix it or not..poor service

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about 1 year ago

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//How is Tamil Nadu growing so fast? What's their special sauce// Education : The State gives the following Free 1. Free Education 2. Free Nutritious Meal 3. Free Text Books 4. Free Note Books 5. Free Educational Kits consisting of school bag, geometry box, crayons/ colour pencils and atlases 6. Free Four Sets of Uniform 7. Free pair of footwear 8. Free Bi-Cycle 9. Free Bus Passes 10. Sanitary Napkins for All Girls 11. Laptops 12. An amount of Rs. 1500 to students studying in 10th and 11th standards and Rs. 2000 to students studying in 12th standard 13. Registration at Employment Exchanges 14. Issue of Community / Resident / Income Certificate Community, Income and Resident certificates to the students of standards X and XII by the Tahsildar of the respective Taluks through the Headmasters of the schools concerned. In addition to the above 15. Woollen Sweaters are being provided to the students in hilly areas who are enrolled in the Noon Meal Programme. 16. Financial Assistance Rs.50,000 for students who have lost their bread winning parents Healthcare : Has the best healthcare infrastructure in India and better than US, Canada, Australia, UK, Europe, Singapore etc Has both Government and Private Healthcare Has all levels of Healthcare Functioning in Government from MTM, Sub Centres, PHCs, GH, Medical College Hospitals and Quarternary centres focusing as basic as Iron Tablets to Performing Heart and Liver Transplants free of cost Transport : Has the Best Connectivity in India. Bus Transport was Nationalised in 1970s itself Electricity : All Villages were electrified in 1971. All Houses got Electricity Connection in 1990. Free Electricity for Farmers Public Distribution System : The Best in India Forward thinking : Textbook Corporation formed in 1970s. They brought books in Tamil on Subjects like Computers and Semiconductors Introduced Computer Science in Schools in 1980s Introduced Computer Science in Engineering in 1980s Tidel Parks and Tamil99 in 1990s Women Education, Women Employment, Women Empowerment Women Education: Exclusive schools were started for Girls. Education, Books, Notes, Noon Meal, School Bag, Sanitary Napkins, Bicycles, Slippers, Bus Pass (FFPT), Atlas, Dictionary, Geometry Box were all given Free. In 1989, Moovalur Ramamirtham Amma memorial Scheme was introduced and Rs 5000 was given as Assistance for Marriage for women if they completed the 8th Standard. In 1996, Rs 10000 was given if the Girl had completed the 10th Standard. This was subsequently increased to Rs 15000 in 2006, Rs 20000 in 2008, and Rs 25000 in 2010. One of the common causes of discontinuation of girl education was puberty. However, this scheme enticed the parent to continue the education till 10th and once the girl gets good marks in 10th, the parents are again convinced by the teachers to make the girl study till 12th. A Free Laptop at this stage went a long way in tilting the parents’ decision towards continuing the girl child’s education. After completing 12th Standard (Higher Secondary) the girls had the option to pursue professional courses or enroll in Women’s only Arts and Science College named after Rani Anna started in Rural Areas in the 1970s. Those from Rural Areas Got Monetary Support for their Graduation and Post-Graduation through EVR Nagammaiyar Memorial Scheme introduced in 1989. Women Employment: In 1972 a scheme was introduced where women were appointed under apprenticeship in various government offices and were subsequently regularized by Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission. Women were appointed into Police Force first in India in 1973 in Tamil Nadu. 30 % reservation for Women in Government Jobs introduced in 1990. Girls / Women were given Free Bicycle / Two-Wheeler Training by the District Administration in the 1990s to enable them not dependent on their father/brothers for going to school and college. Only Women have been appointed as Teachers till the 2nd Standard from 1997. Women-only Special TNPSC exams have been conducted to recruit more women into the workforce. Pilot Training for Girls from SC Community under a cost of Rs 1 Crore initiated in 2009. It is poetic that there is a government that spends money to train a girl to ride a bicycle and train her to fly a plane. Women Entrepreneurship: Free Sewing machine was given to Widows and Deserted Woman from 1975. A self-help group for women was started in 1989 in Dharmapuri and later was expanded all over the state. Microfinancing for Women was introduced in 1989. 10 % Allotment for Women in Industrial Estates Women Empowerment: The Hindu Succession (Tamil Nadu Amendment) Act, introduced as early as 1989, enabled women to inherit equal share from Ancestral properties. 33 percent Reservation for women in Local Bodies is in force since 1996. It was mandated to have at least a woman in Temple Administrative Committee Women’s health: 24-hour PHCs set up for Continuous Maternity Care of Women. To allow the woman to have adequate rest and not overstrain herself during pregnancy and early nursing period, Dr. Muthu Lakshmi Reddy Maternity Benefit Scheme was introduced in 1989. At present Now Rs 18000 is given for each pregnancy. Free Gas Stoves drastically reduced the respiratory diseases associated with faggot stoves. Free Color TV enabled them to be in touch with the world. Social Security for Women The Marriage assistance schemes have been discussed above. Free Sewing machine was given to Widows and Deserted Woman from 1975. They were eligible for pension even after their son crossed 18 years. Dr. Darmaambaal's memorial widow Remarriage scheme was initiated in 1975. Anjugam Ammal memorial Scheme for Intercaste Marriage. Mother Teresa Scheme for Marriage Assistance of Deserted Women. Rs 25000 as Marriage Assistance under EVR Maniyammai memorial scheme for daughters of widows were other schemes. An unmarried woman who is more than 50 years gets Rs 500 as assistance. 1 kg Rice at Rs 1 enabled them to have meals and not being in hunger.

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Never seen before in a T20I match 😮 With clouds looming, the UAE Women pulled off a bold and strategic move - retiring out all 10 batters at 192/0 after just 16 overs. The result? Qatar crumbled under pressure and were all out for just 29. #UAEvQAT #WomensT20Qualifiers

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