of America's first nuclear accident, and another, Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History, published in 2009. "Plutonium-related" container leak On the afternoon of November 8, 2011, in the Zero Power Physics Reactor (ZPPR), a container leaked "plutonium-related" materials, when it was opened by one of the workers. All 17 workers at the incident were immediately taken to have testing done by the Idaho Cleanup Project in the form of Whole Body Counts (scans the body for any internal radiation exposure) and were required to submit urine and fecal samples to further test for internal radioisotopes. Six of them proved to be exposed to "low-level-radiation", two of them fairly extensively. All workers were kept under close observation afterwards with repeated Whole Body Counts and urine and fecal sampling. The Idaho National Laboratory insisted that no radioactivity leaked outside the facility. 2018 Radioactive Waste “Drum Breach” Accidents In April 2018, four canisters of depleted uranium sludge suddenly overpressurized and ejected their lids at a US Department of Energy facility at Idaho National Laboratory. The waste had originated from the now-decommissioned Rocky Flats weapons plutonium production plant. In 2018, anthropologist Vincent Ialenti conducted fieldwork in Idaho exploring the accident’s root causes. Comparing the accident to a 2014 drum breach accident at the WIPP nuclear waste repository in New Mexico, Ialenti attributed Idaho’s drum breaches to “systemic incentives to speed up waste-cleanup projects beyond their organizational capacity, without commensurately expanding their safety or oversight mechanisms.” See also NuScale Power References External links Battelle Web site Idaho Cleanup Project page at Fluor Corporation Annotated bibliography for the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation, filed under Scoville, Butte County, ID: Buildings and structures in Bingham County, Idaho Buildings and structures in Bonneville County, Idaho Buildings and structures in Butte County, Idaho Buildings and structures in Jefferson County, Idaho Historic American Engineering Record in Idaho Historic American Landscapes Survey in Idaho United States Department of Energy national laboratories Federally Funded Research and Development Centers National Laboratory Superfund sites in Idaho Battelle Memorial Institute Nuclear reprocessing sites Nuclear fuel infrastructure in the United States Research institutes in Idaho