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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. Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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    The Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge is a 5,237-acre (21.19 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge in the United States, located approximately 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Denver, Colorado. The refuge is situated west of the cities of Broomfield and Westminster and situated north of the city of Arvada .

  4. 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

  5. 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]

  6. 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]

  7. Idaho National Laboratory - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  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. 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 ]