By evening on Sunday, a total of 207 men and women, mostly plant operators and firemen—but also security guards who had remained at their posts beside the burning unit, construction workers who had waited at a bus stop beneath the plume of fallout, and the anglers from beside the inlet channel—had been admitted to the wards of the hospital. One hundred fifteen of them were initially diagnosed with acute radiation syndrome. Ten had received such massive doses of radiation that the doctors immediately regarded their survival as impossible.
