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The Rocky Flats Plant was a United States nuclear weapons production facility near Denver, Colorado that operated from 1952 to 1992. It was under the control of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) until 1977, when the AEC was replaced by the Department of Energy (DOE). Weapons production was temporarily halted in 1989 after FBI agents raided the facility. Operators of the plant later pleaded guilty to criminal violations of environmental law. The entire site is now the combined Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge and the actively managed DOE Office of Legacy Management "Rocky Flats, Colorado, Site", encompassing the heavily contaminated original weapons production area.
Following World War II, the United States began production of nuclear weapons. The AEC chose the Dow Chemical Company to manage the bomb production facility. A 4 sq mi (10 km2) site about 15 mi (24 km) northwest of Denver, Colorado on a windy plateau called Rocky Flats was chosen for the facility. On July 10, 1951, ground was broken on the first building in the facility. Contemporary news reports stated that the site would not be used to produce nuclear bombs.
Frontline PBS episode on the secrets of Rocky Flats bomb factory. Many of the characters involved are still fighting for the truth to be revealed. The bomb factory has since been decommissioned and transfered to the Fish and Wildlife Service as a wildlife refuge. Many people who are privy to the plants history are concerned over the Fish and Wildlife's plan to open the refuge to the public. Since the transfer of the land as a wildlife refuge the history of the plant has been largely forgotten and several housing developments are springing up around the highly contaminated site. "Secrets of a Bomb Factory," originally aired on Oct. 26, 1993. "Wes McKinley didn't know what he was getting into when, in 1990, he was chosen as foreman of a special grand jury investigating potential crimes at t...
Tom Cochran is a nuclear physicist and an expert in the process of manufacturing nuclear weapons. He is Director of the Nuclear Program at the National Resources Defense Council and served on boards for the DOE and Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He was asked to analyze some of the practices at Rocky Flats for the class-action lawsuit, Merilyn Cook et al vs. Rockwell International Corporation and the Dow Chemical Company. (1996)
Tom Cochran is a nuclear physicist and an expert in the process of manufacturing nuclear weapons. He is Director of the Nuclear Program at the National Resources Defense Council and served on boards for the DOE and Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He was asked to analyze some of the practices at Rocky Flats for the class-action lawsuit, Merilyn Cook et al vs. Rockwell International Corporation and the Dow Chemical Company. (1996)
7 Interesting facts about the former Rocky Flats Nuclear Plant in Arvada, Colorado (near DENVER) MUSIC: "Intrepid" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Over the last half century, Colorado has been the center of the U.S. nuclear weapons programs--within the state alone there are 49 active underground missile silos each. Today we will look at the history of this area in relation to the military industrial complex and its impact on the future. Courtesy 'Democracy Now' May 4, 2004 http://www.democracynow.org/2004/5/4/colorados_weapons_of_mass_destruction_the
3.04.2014 News from many: How many of such weapons factories are on this planet? All of them are a treat to humanity, none are safe! Published on Jun 8, 2012 "Tom Cochran is a nuclear physicist and an expert in the process of manufacturing nuclear weapons. He is Director of the Nuclear Program at the National Resources Defense Council and served on boards for the DOE and Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He was asked to analyze some of the practices at Rocky Flats for the class-action lawsuit, Merilyn Cook et al vs. Rockwell International Corporation and the Dow Chemical Company. (1996) Original uploaded by: fullbodyburden .... Please subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kot1THqBII Thanks for watching Namaste Support nonprofit activism, please subscribe* FAIR USE NOTICE: Any c...
In 1951, in the early days of the Cold War, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission announced the construction of a new facility in Arvada, Colorado, 16 miles from Metro Denver. Although the general public was largely unaware of what went on at the site, the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant manufactured the plutonium “trigger” used in every nuclear weapon created in the United States. For the next several decades, Rocky Flats was a major stimulus to the local economy, providing thousands of jobs to area residents. But it was also a source of increasing controversy, as reports of radioactive contamination affecting the local environment and the truth about what was really going on at Rocky Flats became public. Colorado’s Cold War explores the legacy of Rocky Flats and the local impact of a globa...
Part 1of 5. Judy Padilla tells her story of working at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant from 1982 to 2005. Visit www.DenverDirect.tv for more interviews and information.
Colorado Experience documents the Beryllium exposure workers experienced at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant located outside Denver, CO during the Cold War.
A TripAdvisor™ TripWow video of a travel blog to Uyuni, Bolivia by TravelPod blogger The-boy_picot. See this TripWow and more at http://tripwow.tripadvisor.com/tripwow/ta-00af-a160-640a?ytv4=1 BOLIVIA: La PazUyuni Salt Flats "23rd: rough start to day...... a few tears...said bye and boarded Peggy one last time for our ride to La Paz, BOLIVIA. In comparison to my other Tucan Tour of Mexico in April - guide and people were more friendly and diverse.. the itinerary was more intense so sometimes rushed and frustrating.. all in all probs slightly better. more friends made... En route to La Paz we stopped at the most important archeological site in the country, Tiahuanaco.... ah the border crossing.. no bags checked, but dodgy.... money changers were fine as had separate desks and that... but w...
Visit Terry Lilley's informative website: http://underwater2web.com/ Terry's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Underwater2Web/145488045496948 A statement from Terry Lilley, January 30th, 2015: "Kauai north shore is still "ground zero" for the worst coral die off in the history of the Pacific Ocean! Millions of corals have died over the past three years and I have it all on video! We now know that the military microwave death towers that dot our mountain tops are beaming over 30 million watts of microwaves to war ships for the purpose of killing people. We are tracking each tower from space and showing where each tower is killing the reefs. This is a scientific project with dozen of famous PHD chemist and pysisist ivolved including a Nobel Prize winner! The whole issue will be ...
A quick review of the cooking gear I carry on my overnight trips.
The Caribbean Islands National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) Complex consists of nine separate refuge units, each having unique characteristics and resources. Three of the units are located in the U.S. Virgin Islands, five are in Puerto Rico, and one is located off the coast of Haiti. The Complex supports significant recovery opportunities for federally listed threatened and endangered species, in particular, species that have unique breeding site requirements, making them extremely vulnerable to decline. BUCK ISLAND The island was transferred to the Fish and Wildlife Service due to "its value for migratory birds." It is characterized by a thorn scrub habitat with rocky coastline surrounded by spectacular reefs and a shipwreck that attract large numbers of snorkellers, divers, and boaters. CA...
Various Footage of Beautiful Desert Landscapes. A desert is a landscape or region that receives an extremely low amount of precipitation, less than enough to support growth of most plants. Deserts are defined as areas with an average annual precipitation of less than 250 millimetres (10 in) per year, or as areas where more water is lost by evapotranspiration than falls as precipitation. In the Köppen climate classification system, deserts are classed as BWh (hot desert) or BWk (temperate desert). In the Thornthwaite climate classification system, deserts would be classified as arid megathermal climates. Deserts are part of a wide classification of regions that, on an average annual basis, have a moisture deficit (i.e. they can potentially lose more than is received). Deserts are located wh...
Various Footage of Beautiful Desert Landscapes. A desert is a landscape or region that receives an extremely low amount of precipitation, less than enough to support growth of most plants. Deserts are defined as areas with an average annual precipitation of less than 250 millimetres (10 in) per year, or as areas where more water is lost by evapotranspiration than falls as precipitation. In the Köppen climate classification system, deserts are classed as BWh (hot desert) or BWk (temperate desert). In the Thornthwaite climate classification system, deserts would be classified as arid megathermal climates. Deserts are part of a wide classification of regions that, on an average annual basis, have a moisture deficit (i.e. they can potentially lose more than is received). Deserts are located wh...
We walked, ran, and biked the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail while in Anchorage. 11 miles of beautiful scenery plus the Anchorage Light Speed Planet Walk follows the trail (a scale model of our solar system -- at a walking pace each step equals the distance light travels in one second -- at each stop there are also models of the sun and planets at relative scale).
Rock Cycle Song. Here is a video I created for my 6th grade science students to help them study.I hope you enjoy. Well rocks have a road that they travel on There's one day here and the next day gone Sometimes they bend, sometimes they melt Sometimes they break from water and wind There's a world inside the Earth's surface Where rock changes to Igneous For these rocks, intrusive magma forms And lava makes extrusive ores If cooling hesitates Large Crystals form in place Cools quickly, Glassy, that's the way Cycle of Pathways I wanna ride the Rock Cycle Heat, Pressure, and Melting, and Erosion Rock Cycle Erosion breaks rock from the ground In deposition they settle down Presses now, Compaction then Cementation glues Minerals in From Living things, Pebbles, and San...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The hoary marmot (Marmota caligata) is a species of marmot that inhabits the mountains of northwest North America. Hoary marmots live near the tree line on slopes with grasses and forbs to eat and rocky areas for cover. It is the largest North American ground squirrel and is often nicknamed "the whistler" for its high-pitched warning issued to alert other members of the colony to possible danger. The animals are sometimes called "whistle pigs". Whistler, British Columbia, originally London Mountain because of its heavy fogs and rain, was renamed for these animals to help make it more marketable as a resort.[2] The closest relatives of the species are the yellow-bellied, Olympic, and Vancouver Island marmots, although the exact relationships are uncle...
http://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6122 Kristen Iversen on the devastating public health impact of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant near Denver This week's guest is Kristen Iversen, author of the new book, Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats http://www.kristeniversen.com/bio.htm , published this month by Crown Books in the U.S. and Random House in the U.K. Read the press release about the book. Watch the book trailer here http://www.kristeniversen.com/ . Iversen is Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at The University of Memphis, and also Editor-in-Chief of The Pinch, an award-winning literary journal. She grew up in Arvada, Colorado near the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility, and currently lives in Memphis. As background, read Iversen...
Tom Cochran is a nuclear physicist and an expert in the process of manufacturing nuclear weapons. He is Director of the Nuclear Program at the National Resources Defense Council and served on boards for the DOE and Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He was asked to analyze some of the practices at Rocky Flats for the class-action lawsuit, Merilyn Cook et al vs. Rockwell International Corporation and the Dow Chemical Company. (1996)
December 15, 1988 night-time overflight of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, Golden, Colorado utilizing Forward Looking Infra-Red (FLIR) video recording. This monochrome video displays only thermal activity. Dark areas are cold and light ares indicate heat. The light lines, shapes and swirls are a result of measurable thermal activity. Please note: the hotter the object the whiter it will appear. The technical aspects discerning temperature are not presented here. Suffice to say, on December 15, 1988 at about 10:00 p.m., the National Weather Service documented the temperature near Rocky Flats was approximately seven (7) degrees Fahrenheit with snow on the ground. In other words, the ambient temperature was 24 degrees below freezing. In 1988 … a snow storm again whitened metro Denv...
Dr. Michael Ketterer and Dr. Iggy Litaor present their findings of severe plutonium contamination at the soon to open Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge.
“Case Study: Rocky Flats” - Ken Osgood, Colorado School of Mines. Spring 2015. Bystander effect, competing demands on engineers, effects on human health and environment
The history and current status of toxic plutonium contamination in the Rocky Flats, Colorado vicinity.