Rocky Flats
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| Now officially a remediated wildlife area, Rocky Flats was one of the seven original primary nuclear weapons component facilities. The 6,550-acre site, 16 miles from downtown Denver, had a heavily industrialized 384-acre complex surrounded by a mostly undeveloped buffer zone. For over 30 years, Rocky Flats made the nuclear "pits," the fissile plutonium cores of nuclear bombs. The facility was operated for many years by Rockwell International, until it was raided by the FBI in 1989, due to suspected (and later confirmed) criminal radioactive material management violations. Production of plutonium pits stopped at that point, and the EG&G Corporation took over the management of the plant, then the Kaiser Hill Company later took over management from EG&G. For cleanup, the Department of Energy changed the name to the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site. As of June 2007, the $7 billion clean up is officially completed, and the site has been transferred to the Fish and Wildlife Service. |
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16 miles NW of Denver, near Golden
(POINT(-105.20344734192 39.891299406367))
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http://www.lm.doe.gov/land/sites/co/rocky_flats/rocky.htm
http://www.rockyflatscoldwarmuseum.org/
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