Group of companies of the Russian State Atomic Energy Agency Rosatom, One person died in an accident at a nuclear fuel plant. It is in the Ural Mountains, about 1,600 kilometers east of Moscow. “The incident was quickly detected and does not pose any risk to the population,” the Rosatom nuclear authority said on its Telegram channel on Friday.
Rosatom added it A cylinder containing about one cubic meter of depleted uranium shattered Friday morning at the Ural Electrochemical Combination. According to the report, a worker who fell under pressure was fatally injured. Other workers were sent home after their health checks. Their lives and health were not in danger, according to an official press release.
The article explained that depleted uranium has slightly less than 60% of the radioactivity of natural uranium, and measurements did not show any increase in radiation levels. Authorities are investigating how the depressurization in the uranium container occurred.
The Ural Electrochemical Combination is located in the closed city of Novouralsk, 50 kilometers northwest of Yekaterinburg. The factory produced the first Soviet nuclear fuel. Today, Rosatom is part of the state nuclear authority, which also has a monopoly on the construction and operation of nuclear power plants in Russia.