{"id":591180,"date":"2023-07-15T10:25:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T04:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=591180"},"modified":"2023-07-15T11:27:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T05:57:08","slug":"one-killed-in-accident-at-russian-uranium-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/one-killed-in-accident-at-russian-uranium-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"One killed in accident at Russian uranium plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person was killed in an accident at a uranium enrichment plant in Russia&#8217;s Urals region on Friday but state nuclear corporation Rosatom said the incident posed no threat to the health of people in the area, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The factory said the &#8220;depressurisation&#8221; of a cylinder containing depleted uranium hexafluoride had occurred, but that radiation levels at the site and surrounding area were normal.<\/p>\n<p>Uranium hexafluoride is a chemical used in the process of enriching uranium.<\/p>\n<p>Rosatom, which owns the plant, said the depleted form of the compound was less radioactive than natural uranium and posed no threat to human health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person was killed in an accident at a uranium enrichment plant in Russia&#8217;s Urals region on Friday but state nuclear corporation Rosatom said the incident posed no threat to the health of people in the area, state media reported. The factory said the &#8220;depressurisation&#8221; of a cylinder containing depleted uranium hexafluoride had occurred, but that radiation levels at the site and surrounding area were normal. Uranium hexafluoride is a chemical used in the process of enriching uranium. Rosatom, which owns the plant, said the depleted form of the compound was less radioactive than natural uranium and posed no threat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}