Major explosion at world’s biggest uranium plant kills one after ‘depressurisation’

The explosion rung out at the Ural Electrochemical Combine [UEIP] in Russia and killed one male worker, 65, in the blast with the plant reassuring locals that radiation hadn’t leaked outside of the plant

A major accident at the world largest uranium enrichment plant in Russia has left one person dead from and “explosion” caused by sudden “depressurisation”.

The incident was at Ural Electrochemical Combine [UEIP] and led to the death of a male worker, 65.

The plant – part of Rosatom, Russia’s state atomic energy corporation – denied any radioactive leakage outside the plant.

Media outlet 112 reported: ‘A Rosatom employee died in the explosion of a tank with depleted uranium hexafluoride.”