Lead
Lead releases at US Doe Idaho National Laboratory Site rose from 37k lb to 194k lb (5.3×) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
US Doe Idaho National Laboratory Site
Total reported releases 386k lb more than tripled year over year (+234%). Total releases concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
LINCOLN BLVD, Scoville, Idaho · 541715 · Other · operated by US Department Of Energy
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Chromium
Chromium releases at US Doe Idaho National Laboratory Site rose from 25k lb to 106k lb (4.3×) between 2023 and 2024.
Nickel
Nickel releases at US Doe Idaho National Laboratory Site rose from 32k lb to 72k lb (2.2×) between 2023 and 2024.
Lead
Lead at US Doe Idaho National Laboratory Site have more than three-quarters since 2010 (through 2024).
Showing the 4 most editorially weighted signals out of 5. Lower-severity signals fold into the chemical breakdown and history charts below.
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Lead
Lead concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Chromium
Chromium concentrations have more than doubled since 2019.
Nickel
Nickel concentrations have fallen 40% since 2010.
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) concentrations have fallen 20% since 2014.
Nitric acid
Nitric acid concentrations have more than halved since 2014.
Naphthalene
Naphthalene concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Mercury
Mercury concentrations have more than doubled since 2023.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (35 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 42,707. Why we surface this →
34.1%
Low-income
22.4%
People of color
6.1%
Under age 5
13.6%
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics, population-weighted across the 3-mile buffer around this facility (from USEPA-clone/EJAM-open blockgroupstats). Indicator-level percentile and EJ-disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page — they describe wider regional exposure burdens, not effects attributable to a single facility.
Source. EPA Toxics Release Inventory · retrieved 2026-05-07. Reporting year 2024. TRI is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.
What this is not. TRI quantifies releases reported by the facility under EPCRA §313 — not ambient air or water concentrations measured at receptors. We do not attribute individual health outcomes to specific facilities; that exceeds what the data can support.