Rocky Flats

[BPTactical]

I don't know if its true or not but when I was at NBK-Bangor the story was that if you had a kid it wouldn't be a male due to the radiation. I do not know of any guys stationed there that had boys for at least 3 years after they left.

'Splains a lot......

[Rabid]

I would love to hear more stories like this...

Watch the video in the link i posted.

[HoneyBadger]

Holy crap...

The contamination primarily resulted from two major plutonium fires in 1957 and 1969 (plutonium is pyrophoric and shavings canspontaneously combust) and from wind-blown plutonium that leaked from barrels of radioactive waste. Much lower concentrations of radioactive isotopes were released throughout the operational life of the plant from 1952 to 1992, from smaller accidents and from normal operational releases of plutonium particles too small to be filtered. Prevailing winds from the plant carried airborne contamination south and east, into populated areas northwest of Denver.

The contamination of the Denver area by plutonium from the fires and other sources was not publicly reported until the 1970s. According to a 1972 study coauthored by Edward Martell, "In the more densely populated areas of Denver, the Pu contamination level in surface soils is several times fallout", and the plutonium contamination "just east of the Rocky Flats plant ranges up to hundreds of times that from nuclear tests."^[2] As noted by Carl Johnson in Ambio, "Exposures of a large population in the Denver area to plutonium and other radionuclides in the exhaust plumes from the plant date back to 1953."^[3]

Removal of the plant and surface contamination was largely completed in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Nearly all underground contamination was left in place, and measurable radioactive environmental contamination in and around Rocky Flats will probably persist for thousands of years.

[kidicarus13]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0207-07.htm

The refuge, scheduled to partially open in 2007 and be in full operation about 2012, will have hiking trails, interpretive signs and limited hunting. It surrounds the area where the actual nuclear production went on, which will remain closed.


http://blogs.westword.com/latestword...efuge_week.php

This is National Wildlife Refuge Week, and the feds are encouraging you to "see what wildlife refuges are doing to conserve America's wildlife heritage." But when I asked if I could see Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, the regional U.S. Fish & Wildlife office declined that request, and instead suggested a visit to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal.


http://www.fws.gov/refuge/rocky_flats/
There is currently no public access to Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge. For information about our plans for future visitation, please see our Comprehensive Conservation Plan and our plans for future signage about site history and safety considerations.

[GunsRBadMMMMKay]

I know where they buried some of the radioactive pavement they tore off some Denver roads too - kinda near a shooting range a ways out east lol. I think that was contaminated from something else though I forget......


So mutant zombie bikers could be a possibility in Colorado?

[TFOGGER]

I know where they buried some of the radioactive pavement they tore off some Denver roads too - kinda near a shooting range a ways out east lol. I think that was contaminated from something else though I forget......


So mutant zombie bikers could be a possibility in Colorado?

Radium tailings mixed into the asphalt they used to pave Denver streets in the 60s. There's a superfund site somewhere down by the old Gates Rubber plant where they basically just poured concrete over the tailings pile from the old mill.

[RonMexico]

I'm pretty close to Standley Lake. Maybe this explains my carrots?

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I can't believe they are selling houses for $300+k which share a property line with rocky flats.

[drift_g35]

I can't believe they are selling houses for $300+k which share a property line with rocky flats.

We just need to get all the people emigrating from California to move into that neighborhood.

Too harsh?

[BPTactical]

Radium tailings mixed into the asphalt they used to pave Denver streets in the 60s. There's a superfund site somewhere down by the old Gates Rubber plant where they basically just poured concrete over the tailings pile from the old mill.

Shattuck Chemical:
http://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/...uck/index.html

The aquifer under the capped pile of rock runs straight to the Platte.

[GunsRBadMMMMKay]

Radium tailings mixed into the asphalt they used to pave Denver streets in the 60s. There's a superfund site somewhere down by the old Gates Rubber plant where they basically just poured concrete over the tailings pile from the old mill.

Yeah, I got to service some machines by Gates that also requested me to change air filters and not blow them out There is a toxic waste dump out by Lead Valley near Deer Trail that has some of the radioactive asphalt buried in an area.....along with a ton of chemicals and asbestos in other areas.