A nuclear fuel storage tank in Russia has ruptured at a factory | electrochemical | storage tank
According to the report of Deutsche Presse-Agentur on July 14, the Russian government said that an accident occurred at a nuclear fuel plant in Ural Mountain City, killing one person. The city of Ural Mountains is located approximately 1600 kilometers east of Moscow.
The Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation announced on its Telegraph software channel that on the morning of the 14th, a storage tank containing approximately 1 cubic meter of depleted uranium broke at the Ural Electrochemical Joint Enterprise. The company said, "The accident has been quickly controlled within a specific range and will not pose any risk to the public." No radioactive material leakage occurred during the accident.
According to reports, a worker was fatally injured while experiencing a decrease in stress. Other workers were sent home after undergoing medical examinations, and according to official press releases, their lives and health were not threatened.
The manuscript states that the radioactivity of depleted uranium is only below 60% of natural uranium, and the measurement results do not show any signs of an increase in radiation levels. Officials are investigating how decompression occurs inside uranium containers.
The report states that this factory produced the first batch of nuclear fuel from the Soviet Union. Nowadays, it belongs to the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation, the national nuclear regulatory agency. The company also monopolizes the construction and operation of Russian nuclear power plants.