How many years after the radiation accident did Kurchatov die?
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Answer
Igor Kurchatov died 10 years after his radiation accident in 1955. He had been exposed to high levels of radiation while conducting an experiment in the 1940s, and his health began to deteriorate in the years that followed. He died of a heart attack in 1960 at the age of 59.
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