Anatoli Bugorski
The particle accelerator was a U-70 Synchrotron. It was maintained by the Protvino Institute for High Energy Physics. It had been having problems and Bugorski was investigate the problems. On the day of the accident, several safety mechanisms had either failed or been turned off. Bugorski walked into the room and put his head in the accelerator. He said he saw a "flash brighter then a thousand suns." Bugorski knew he had been exposed to dangerous particle radiation but decided to continue his day like normal/ The next day, his head was swollen. Doctors said he had radiation illness, They said that his skin would soon peeled off his face in the path the proton beam took as it moved through his head. Bugorski had been exposed to a proton beam of 70 GeV. This dose of radiation should have been fatal, but he lived with life changing injuries. He could not hear in his left ear or control the left side of his face because the protons burned through nerves.  he also developed epilepsy.