[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, REUSE: "Feds raided Rocky Flats [CO] 25 years ago..."

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Feds raided Rocky Flats 25 years ago, signaling the end of an era

By Electa Draper
Denver Post (CO)
June 2, 2014

ROCKY FLATS - In 1989, Germans tore down the Berlin Wall. The anti- 
Soviet Solidarity movement pushed for power in Poland. One million  
Chinese in Tiananmen Square demanded reform. And Colorado was seeing  
the end of its own extraordinary Cold War chapter at Rocky Flats, 16  
miles northwest of Denver.

Twenty-five years ago, on June 6, 1989, a convoy of about 30 vehicles  
carrying more than 70 armed agents of the FBI and the Environmental  
Protection Agency raided the U.S. Department of Energy's plutonium- 
processing plant at Rocky Flats for suspected environmental crimes.

The Cold War site, which operated continuously from 1952 to 1989, was  
the Denver area's largest industrial plant, with 4,000 men and women  
manufacturing plutonium fission cores used to detonate U.S nuclear  
bombs.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_25874064/feds-raided-rocky-flats-25- 
years-ago-signaling

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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