One person died on Friday in an accident at the world’s largest uranium enrichment plant in the Ural Mountains region, the Russian nuclear company Rosatom said, assuring that the incident did not pose any danger to the health of people in the area, Reuters reports. .

The representatives of the plant stated that there was a “depressurization” of the cylinder containing depleted uranium hexafluoride, but the level of radiation inside the facility and in the surrounding areas was normal.

Uranium hexafluoride is a chemical compound used in the uranium enrichment process.

The Russian state company Rosatom, which owns the plant, said that in its depleted form the substance is less radioactive than natural uranium and does not pose a danger to human health.

“There is no danger for the residents of Novouralsk and the plant’s workers,” Yuriy Mineev, deputy head of the plant for production, told the Russian mass media. He also said that it continues to operate as usual.

The Ural Electrochemical Plant, where the accident occurred, claims that it enriches uranium for Russian nuclear power plants and is the world’s largest facility of its kind.

Rosatom did not respond to Reuters’ request for detailed information about the accident.