[kj] "Brighter than a thousand suns" reference

[Brendan Quinn]

Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski (Russian
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language> : Анатолий Бугорский; 1942
- ) is a Russian <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians>  scientist
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientist>  who was involved in an accident
with a particle accelerator
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_accelerator>  in 1978.[1]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski#cite_note-wired_future_ruins
-1> 


Particle accelerator accident


As a researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_High_Energy_Physics>  in
Protvino <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protvino> , Bugorski used to work
with the largest Soviet particle accelerator
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_accelerator> , the U-70
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-70_%28synchrotron%29>  synchrotron
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchrotron> .[2]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski#cite_note-gd-info_km_ru_pers
onal-2>  On 13 July 1978, Bugorski was checking a malfunctioning piece of
equipment when an accident occurred due to failed safety mechanisms.
Bugorski was leaning over the piece of equipment when he stuck his head in
the path of the proton <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton>  beam.
Reportedly, he saw a flash "brighter than a thousand suns," but did not feel
any pain.[1]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski#cite_note-wired_future_ruins
-1> 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

 

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