POLK COUNTY, Fla. – On a small plot of land in Polk County, a company is hard at work studying a road crafted from radioactive materials.

But is it something that local residents should be worried about?

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The company, dubbed “The Mosaic Company,” told News 6 that the road is made using phosphogypsum (PG), a waste byproduct of processing phosphate ore into phosphoric acid, which itself is used in fertilizer.

However, the EPA notes that PG contains radium: a radioactive material that can potentially cause cancer. This radium can decay and form radon gas, which can cause lung cancer, though dried PG forms a crust that usually prevents much of this radon from escaping.

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