[CPEO-MEF] Rocky Flats (CO) radiation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Flats still has hot spots

Low-level radiation found in some areas thought to be clean

By Ann Imse
Rocky Mountain News (CO)
September 2, 2005

Final review of the clean-up of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant
has found spots of unexpected low-level radioactive contamination in
areas thought to have been cleared. 

U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard immediately responded to the announcement of the
test results Thursday night with a press release questioning "whether
the site has been sufficiently cleaned up." 

Allard said Rocky Flats will not be closed until it has met its clean-up
standards. 

But the Energy Department's John Rampe dismissed the minor hot spots as
too small to be of concern in the 6,000-acre site 16 miles northwest of
downtown Denver. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4049690,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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