22 at NIST treated after experiment
Rocky Mountain News
Published June 11, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.
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Twenty-two workers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology underwent decontamination procedures for plutonium exposure Monday.
One-quarter of a gram of powder containing non-weapons- grade plutonium spilled when a vial cracked during an experiment.
U.S. Rep. Mark Udall, D-Colo., said NIST officials assured him that the scientists in the lab are fine and that there was no contamination outside the one affected lab.
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