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  2. Rocky Flats Plant - Wikipedia

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    The Rocky Flats Plant was a United States manufacturing complex that produced nuclear weapons parts near Denver, Colorado. [2] The facility's primary mission was the fabrication of plutonium pits, [3] which were shipped to other facilities to be assembled into nuclear weapons. [4]

  3. Radioactive contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant

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    One of four example estimates of the plutonium (Pu-239) plume from the 1957 fire at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant. The Rocky Flats Plant, a former United States nuclear weapons production facility located about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Denver, caused radioactive (primarily plutonium, americium, and uranium) contamination within and outside its boundaries. [1]

  4. Rocky Flats Truth Force - Wikipedia

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    The Rocky Flats Truth Force was a grass-roots non-violent anti-nuclear group formed during protests at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant near Golden, Colorado during the late 1970s. Demonstrations and track blockages at the Rocky Flats Plant in 1978 resulted in multiple arrests of the protesters. [ 1 ]

  5. Nuclear safety in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The plant was located about 15 miles upwind from Denver and has since been shut down and its buildings demolished and completely removed from the site. Public protests and a combined Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) raid in 1989 stopped production at the Rocky Flats Plant. [43]

  6. List of Superfund sites in Colorado - Wikipedia

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    Rocky Flats Plant : Jefferson: Soil, surface water, groundwater and air contamination by plutonium, americium, uranium and VOCs from nearly forty years of nuclear weapons manufacturing. The plant was closed after being raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and EPA. [21] 07/14/1989: 11/21/1989

  7. US private payrolls gain slightly below expectations in November

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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. private payrolls increased at a moderate pace in November, while annual wages for workers staying in their jobs edged up for the first time in 25 months.

  8. Making a Real Killing - Wikipedia

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    Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West is a 1999 book by Len Ackland. [1] Ackland draws on information obtained from governmental sources, federal contractors, personal interviews, and newspaper articles to form a multi-layered history about the controversial Rocky Flats nuclear facility.

  9. Carl J. Johnson - Wikipedia

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    He reported that soil around the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant contained 44 times more plutonium than the government claimed. In 1977 he reported higher-than-average rates of leukemia and cancer among the local people. In 1980 he reported that plant workers had eight times more brain tumors than expected. In 1981 he was fired.