Fire at US uranium site

(RT) ⸻ A fire broke out at a major US uranium processing facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee on Wednesday morning. Emergency crews responded to "a fire involving uranium" and about 200 employees were evacuated. All employees have been accounted for and there is no danger to the general public. The National Nuclear Security Administration and the contractor Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC are in charge of the response. The facility's official Twitter account spoke of "an incident" that happened around 9:15 on Wednesday morning and was later described as "a fire in a hood" that was "contained to the production building." There were "no reports of injury or contamination," and there was "no off-site impact to the public as a result of the incident." By 1pm local time the complex had returned to normal operations, but Building 9212 remained off-limits and there was no confirmation that the fire had been put out. The US Department of Energy lists the building as a uranium processing facility and was built in 1945 for the original nuclear weapons program. The Y-12 website describes the National Security Complex as "a premier manufacturing facility dedicated to making our nation and the world a safer place," that deals with storing nuclear materials, producing fuel for the US Navy's reactors, and performs "complementary work for other government and private-sector entities." Oak Ridge was built by the US government in 1942 as part of the "Manhattan Project" to build the world's first atomic bomb.