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    The Rocky Flats Plant was a United States manufacturing complex that produced nuclear weapons parts in the western United States, near Denver, Colorado...
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    The Rocky Flats Plant, a former United States nuclear weapons production facility located about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Denver, caused radioactive...
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    Rocky Flats Plant, from 1973 to 1981. Rocky Flats, 16 miles northwest of Denver, shapes plutonium into triggers for thermonuclear weapons. The plant opened...
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    "Rocky Flats Plant, Emergency Medical Services Facility". U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Legacy Management. HAER No. CO-83-S (Rocky Flats Plant,...
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    dog, and porcupine. The site also contains an estimated 630 plant species. The Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge is one of over 560 refuges in the National...
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    radionuclides in the exhaust plumes from the plant date back to 1953." Weapons production at the Rocky Flats plant was halted after a combined FBI and EPA...
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  • and track blockages at the Rocky Flats Plant in 1978 resulted in multiple arrests of the protesters. The Rocky Flats Plant was a US nuclear weapon complex...
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    exercises Bikini Atoll Hanford Site Rocky Flats Plant, see also radioactive contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant Techa River Pollution of Lake Karachay...
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    Between 1954 and 1989, pits for US weapons were produced at the Rocky Flats Plant; the plant was later closed due to numerous safety issues. The Department...
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    into the air and soil. Saltcrete Rocky Flats Plant Radioactive Waste Radioactive contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant Ketti, Donald (1993). Sharing Power:...
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    to exceed the EPA PAGs for more than the immediate site area. The Rocky Flats Plant, a former U.S. nuclear weapons production facility in the state of...
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    discloses worker safety issues at the Rocky Flats Plant, and lack of workplace regulations. Hazards at Rocky Flats included perforated (damaged) gloves...
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  • Incidence Risk from Plutonium Released from the 1957 Fire at the Rocky Flats Plant". RAC Report No. 2-CDPHE-RFP-1999-FINAL. Archived from the original...
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  • contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant Kristen Iversen, author of Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats Downwinders "Master...
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    envisioned but production was halted after the November 1989 raid on the Rocky Flats Plant by the FBI. Consideration was given to restarting production but the...
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  • Plumbbob 1954 Totskoye nuclear exercise Bikini Atoll Hanford Site Rocky Flats Plant 1945 Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Related topics International...
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  • opening scenes and about half of its length, the film focuses on the Rocky Flats Plant and its plutonium contamination of the area's environment. The remainder...
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    widespread radioactive contamination include the Bikini Atoll, the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado, the area near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster...
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    was initially fitted to the Trident I SLBM system, but after the Rocky Flats plant where its successor the W88 was being made was shut down in 1989 after...
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    to Pearl Harbor. September 1957: a plutonium fire occurred at the Rocky Flats Plant, which resulted in the contamination of Building 71 and the release...
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  • United States Radioactive contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West, by Len Ackland. Albuquerque:...
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    carried, including plutonium triggers at the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado. Rockwell ran the weapons plant from 1975 to 1990, and was one of the subjects...
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  • Technology all opened offices in the Denver area. From 1953 to 1989, the Rocky Flats Plant, a Department of Energy nuclear weapon facility formerly located about...
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    decommissioned and closed a former nuclear weapons facility at the Rocky Flats Plant. In 2006, the company helped rebuilding efforts along the Gulf Coast...
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    out of the box instead of letting air in. At the now-deactivated Rocky Flats Plant, which manufactured plutonium triggers, also called "pits", production...
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    Doom with a View: Historical and Cultural Contexts of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant. She is a Professor in English and Creative Writing at the...
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    52nd Avenue, 64th Avenue, Ralston Road, and Kipling Street. The Rocky Flats plant operated from 1952 to 1992, as a manufacturing complex that produced...
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    in 2009. On September 11, 1957, a plutonium fire occurred at the Rocky Flats Plant, which resulted in the significant plutonium contamination of surrounding...
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    separated from Arapahoe and Adams counties. From 1953 to 1989, the Rocky Flats Plant, a DOE nuclear weapon facility that was about 15 miles from Denver...
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    cancer risk from carbon tetrachloride released to the air from the rocky flats plant". Risk Anal. 21 (4): 675–95. Bibcode:2001RiskA..21..675R. doi:10.1111/0272-4332...
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