The U-70 did, iirc, 70 GeV. A bit under a hundred times less energy per proton, and with an unknown number number of total protons. (Technical data is a bit light on the ground for a 50 year old Soviet particle accelerator.)
That's incredible, poor guy. It doesn't sound like he got a great deal of compensation, either - I'd be fairly hacked off if my face was half-melted off because of someone else's / a machine's incompetence.
He is able to function perfectly well, except for the fact that he has occasional complex partial seizures and rare tonic-clonic seizures.
How the hell is that perfectly well!? Sounds like something out of a Monty Python sketch ... oh just some small seizures, but he's fine really. It's perfectly safe to stick your head in a proton beam kids. Perfectly safe.
Really interesting though, I was under the impression the beams needed a very strong magnetic field to remain stable. How come he was able to stick his head in one?
Right. This is on par with Phineas Gage - considering that they both had something ridiculous pierce their brain, and shouldn't have expected to survive, they both did pretty okay.
Maybe related are 'criticality accidents', where by accident a critical mass is reached (either by bringing two masses of fissile material together, or by enclosing a fissile mass by a neutron reflector), and someone gets a high dose of radiation, often with lethal result.
Thus confirming that it's actually quiet a difficult problem, important given that quiet a few in the comments on the video suggested they should have definitely knew thing kind of thing off the cuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski#Particle_accel...