īasil Brown, a 48-year-old health food advocate from Croydon, England, died from liver damage after he consumed 70 million units of Vitamin A and around 10 US gallons (38 litres) of carrot juice over ten days, turning his skin bright yellow. These are the only reported human deaths outside the Earth's atmosphere. Soviet cosmonauts Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev, died when their Soyuz-11 spacecraft depressurized during preparations for re-entry. The three remain the only human beings killed by a reactor explosion in the United States. The graveyard is still monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency. Officials feared that moving them would risk spreading contamination along public roadways, so a graveyard was established in the desert only 0.5 kilometres (0.31 mi) from the explosion. The steam left the bodies of all three men radioactive, so they were buried in lead coffins. Army specialist Richard Leroy McKinley suffered a head wound, from which he died later that day. The steam was so hot that Byrnes instantly died by severe burns. While the reactor was airborne the radioactive steam escaped, spraying the room. Legg, lifted him from a catwalk, and penetrated the ceiling, leaving him dangling. Many components were thrown out of the top, one of which impaled Navy electrician's mate Richard C. The force of the steam expanding lifted the entire reactor into the air about 2.77 metres (9 ft 1 in), in what has been described as a water hammer-like effect. The reactor instantly went critical, which flash-boiled the water around the reactor. Byrnes was supposed to pull a control rod part way out by hand, but he pulled the rod further than intended. While trying to bring the reactor online, Army specialist John A. During the testing of an experimental nuclear reactor design, in Arco, Idaho, two soldiers and a sailor were killed, but their deaths were not due to radiation poisoning.
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