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United States: Workers Exposed in Oak Ridge Uranium Fire A small amount of depleted uranium caught fire yesterday at the U.S. Energy Department’s Y-12 nuclear weapons facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn., exposing three workers to low levels of radioactive contamination, plant officials said (see GSN, Dec. 6, 2002). The fire resulted in no injuries, Y-12 spokesman Bill Wilburn said. Referring to the three workers exposed to radiation, Wilburn said, “It was a very low level of contamination.” “All three people have been decontaminated, and there is no expected health risk associated with this low level of contamination,” he said (Frank Munger, Knoxnews.com, April 16).
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