On July 13, 1978, the Soviet scientist made a regrettable decision. By placing his head in the accelerator, a charged proton stream had struck his skull.
Coming in at a speed of 670 miles per hour and with a single blinding flash, that moment would change everything for Bugorski.
Now, Burgorski was working at the institute the day his incident happened. But, the critical moment came when he inserted his head inside the machine. Afterward, something horrific occurred.
The beam shot right out and it went into the direction of the Soviet researcher.
It seemed like nothing happened until Burgoski reported something. He claimed to have seen a burst of light that was “brighter than a thousand suns.” In that dramatic moment, the U-70 fired out a highly charged beam of protons that went through the scientist’s head.
The physical impact of receiving a high dose of proton radiation was unknown at the time.
A particular source would be solar wind, which is a beam of particles that radiate from the Sun. Cosmic rays coming from deep space are another commodity too. However, in both cases, the Earth’s atmosphere stops the radiation from reaching us.
It wasn’t until the seventies that scientists detected proton radiation in radioactive decay.
