A Brief History of: The killer Therac-25 Radiotherapy machine (Short Documentary)
Channel: Plainly Difficult
Date: 05/09/2020

#Radiotherapy #nuclear #atomichistory 

Today we are looking at the Therac-25 Radiotherapy unit and its victims, however unlike other radiotherapy units on this channel the death toll was equated to a fault with the units software giving dangerous doses of radiation. 

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Sources:

1.https://web.archive.org/web/20041128024227/http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2003/cmsc838p/Misc/therac.pdf

2.https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs240/old/sp2014/readings/therac-25.pdf

3.http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf

4.https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/MC.1993.274940

5.https://dusk.geo.orst.edu/ethics/papers/Therac.Huff.pdf