Cecil Kelley

Cecil Kelley

In 1958, a technician named Cecil Kelley was working on a plutonium compound that went supercritical, giving him a lethal dose in just 200 microseconds. His colleagues found him outside in the snow screaming “I’m burning up! I’m burning up!”

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