Rocky Flats

[kidicarus13]

I just finishing up a book about Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant- The Ambushed Grand Jury. Interesting book. Did anyone work there previously? Any good stories you could share?

[trlcavscout]

I work with a guy that worked security there. He has some good stories, they almost shot down a news helo when it wouldnt leave their air space.

[WETWRKS]

For years I had an oppertunity to purchase a mess of paintguns that they used for training there. They would have needed to be converted from .62 cal to .68 to be useable and the price wasn't in line to make it feasable. Every time I was offered them in the back of my head I though they probably glowed in the dark...after all the info that has come out about the place that may not have been too far from the truth.

[GunsRBadMMMMKay]

The couple times I was sent out there during cleanup, I swore I could feel the radiation or something........the guys that were working on site swore it was safe and the feeling was in my head. They also suggested I not blow out air filters and just replace them, LOL.

[opie011]

A friends dad worked security there, he has some awesome stories!!

[kidicarus13]

Built on the Rocky Flats southern border
http://candelaslife.reachlocal.net/area-map

There must be a lot of naive people out there.

[GunsRBadMMMMKay]

That's as cool as "Reunion" LOL. Chemical weapons? Pesticides? What arsenal? That's a game reserve..............

[electronman1729]

My dad used to do some work there. Told me stories about how the floors were recessed to contain floods.

[Dave]

My father in law worked there for a while as a contracted safety consultant. Got ressigned by his company after telling the people at Rocky Flats that when they filled in a few of the bottom floors of a subterranean building that they hadn't used the right materials and procedures. Wouldn't tell me what they were having to fill in for, just that there is no way it would be safe to live there, drink water from there or eat meat from animals that live there. He did mention seeing experiments where they had multisectional, hydraulically controlled tables with fissile materials on them and the scientists would see how long they could keep multiple sub-critical masses of weapons grade plutonium or uranium revolving around each other and see how close together and how fast they could get them moving while not achieving a criticality incident. From how fast they worked and what they were using to fill in the sub floors something might have went wrong in one of these experiments as they used lead and no equipment was removed prior to filling in. If something like that did happen you're talking a release of up to 10k rads. No official record of a criticality are to be found for Rocky Flats though, so it may be for something else that happened.

[jhood001]

Built on the Rocky Flats southern border
http://candelaslife.reachlocal.net/area-map

There must be a lot of naive people out there.

I've heard that you have to sign a release when you purchase there that removes all liability from the developer for any physical ailments you might develop from exposure to radioactive material. No shit.