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>= ~5 Sv in an acute dose is generally fatal, but a man named Albert Stevens was injected with a small dose of plutonium in a human radiation experiment, and suffered a net dose of 64 Sv over a 21 year period before dying of heart disease. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stevens



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