Rocky Flats Superfund

By cdemeyer
  • Plant begins production of plutonium triggers

    Plant begins production of plutonium triggers

  • Rocky Flats fire spills radioactive contamination as far as Denver

    Rocky Flats fire spills radioactive contamination as far as Denver

  • 5000 barrels of plutonium leak into soil contaminate local neighborhood

    5000 barrels of plutonium leak into soil contaminate local neighborhood

  • Most expensive industrial fire in US history

    Most expensive industrial fire in US history

    "Room damaged by 1969 Rocky Flats Fire" by United States Department of Energy - http://www.lm.doe.gov/land/sites/co/rocky_flats/haer/base/776.htm. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Room_damaged_by_1969_Rocky_Flats_Fire.jpg#/media/File:Room_damaged_by_1969_Rocky_Flats_Fire.jpg
  • Studies find higher than average cancer and health issues in residents

    Studies find higher than average cancer and health issues in residents

  • Allan Ginsberg Protests at Rocky Flats

    Allan Ginsberg Protests at Rocky Flats

  • Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 was passed by congress

    Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 was passed by congress

  • 17,000 protesters joined hands to encircle Rocky Flats

    17,000 protesters joined hands to encircle Rocky Flats

    30th anniversary of protest
  • Operation Desert Glow

    Operation Desert Glow

    FBI got past the DOE's heavily armed, authorized to shoot-to-kill security—whose armament included surface-to-air missiles—under the ruse of providing a terrorist threat briefing and served its search warrant to Dominick Sanchini,[13] Rockwell International's manager of Rocky Flats, who as it happened died the next year in Boulder of cancer