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I wouldn't care about radiation. I'd care about aresolized uranium hexafluoride though. A toxic acidic reactive heavy metal gas? Delicious. It's more dangerous than weapons grade uranium by a mile.
It won't spread very far due to its density though. I wouldn't like to be in the enrichment room itself if the bombing did rupture some active centrafuges but outside should be fine.
They often keep that shit in tanks outside, particularly depleted(figuring out what to do with depleted uranium hexafluoride is often a challenge and the US has a truly staggering amount of full tanks just sitting around waiting to leak). Once it hits air you get hydrofluoric acid gas which will spread thanks to the explosion and will kill you in small concentrations(as low as 30 ppm). It's awful and blowing it up to spread it everywhere is even more awful. The only thing worse would be bombing a purex plutonium reprocessing plant. That is just as toxic in different ways but you can make the tanks go prompt critical thanks to changing it's geometry and it has actual fission products you can spread around. Those reprocessing plants were a main plank in how north Korea got their bomb.
Enrichment means that they bring in some material with some amount of radioactivity, and they separate it into portions with more radioactivity and less radioactivity. At any given time materials with all three levels of radioactivity would be there, and could be released by a bombing.
*Three levels is a gross simplification, of course.
Uranium 235 isn't very radioactive in the absence of a neutron flux. It's fissile which means it will undergo a reaction when it absorbs a neutron and its fission products are radioactive but the biggest risk from handling uranium (below a critical mass) is its chemical toxicity rather than radioactivity (and that applies just as much to the non-fissile U238)
Thanks for the clarification. TIL!
If theheadline is true, that might mean that the "bunker busters" didn't reach the facility, but instead just shifted part of the mountain above it.