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	Rocky Flats Plant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This report was refuted by a Department of Energy (DOE) report indicating lower cancer rates in males employed at Rocky Flats that in the national population.
		Rockwell was replaced by EGandG as primary contractor for the Rocky Flats plant.
		In 2000, Congress proposed transforming Rocky Flats to a wildlife refuge, setting aside 6,400 acres (25 km²) after cleanup and closure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rocky_Flats_Plant (1627 words)

	Rocky Flats Phase II
		The Rocky Flats Historical Public Exposures Studies was a nine-year research project in which the potential health effects from past releases of radioactive materials and chemicals from the former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, located northwest of Denver, Colorado, were identified and assessed.
		Carbon tetrachloride, a solvent used at Rocky Flats for cleaning and degreasing, was the key chemical of concern released from the plant.
		Rocky Flats is located in a complex terrain and airflow environment, and atmospheric transport models often perform poorly under such conditions.
	www.racteam.com /Experience/Projects/RockyFlats.htm (1731 words)

	Rocky Flats FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Rocky Flats, or as it is formally called, the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site, is a federal facility under the control of the United States Department of Energy.
		Rocky Flats is located 16 miles northwest from the heart of Denver, Colorado, and nine miles southeast of the city of Boulder.
		During the Cold War, Rocky Flats was responsible for the fabrication of the hollow plutonium sphere, or "pit", that serves as the trigger device for nuclear warheads.
	www.rfcab.org /FAQ.html (2313 words)

	Bestselling author Michael Fumento reports: "Rocky Flats Horror Picture Show."
		Rocky Flats is the ninth largest employer in a state that's just coming out of a five-year recession.
		A report released this past January found 12 Rocky Flats workers with chronic beryllium disease, a nuclear-plant version of fl lung, caused by inhalation of the strong, lightweight metal used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons.
		A December 1988 DOE report found Rocky Flats' water to be potentially the worst environmental problem in the nation's nuclear-weapons complex, although DOE officials said it would take nearly forty years for the contamination to spread to local drinking-water supplies.
	www.fumento.com /rockyflats.html (1332 words)

	Annual Report on Contractor Work Force Restructuring -- FY 1997, Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site
		The key component produced at Rocky Flats was the plutonium pit, commonly referred to as the "trigger", for nuclear weapons.
		The Rocky Flats Local Impacts Initiative (RFLII) is a unit of local government formed in 1991 by an intergovernmental agreement of fifteen local governments.
		Based on the results of an economic analysis conducted by the Rocky Flats Field Office, the Department has determined that there was little direct benefit to continue the NCPP project to Stage III.
	www.wct.doe.gov /documents/3_pro_doc/7_history/annual_reports/1997/rocky.htm (2911 words)

	Rocky Flats Grand Jury
		The case of the Rocky Flats grand jury, as it has become known, clearly illustrates the powers and the limits of grand jurors.
		That's not to say Rocky Flats was the usual grand jury investigation - it is precisely because the jurors tried to stretch the bounds of grand jury behavior that Rocky Flats makes such a good case study.
		The Rocky Flats grand jury was known as a "runaway jury" because jurors struck off on their own - away from the guidance of federal prosecutors - to investigate the case as they saw fit.
	www.trialbriefs.com /RockyFlats.htm (759 words)

	Closing Rocky Flats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		ROCKY FLATS — When Kaiser-Hill Co. closed one of the most contaminated buildings at this former nuclear weapons factory on Dec. 1, company officials knew they might throw off an already tight schedule to clean up and close Rocky Flats.
		Rocky Flats is also a model for the cleanup and closure of 13 other DOE nuclear sites nationwide.
		Rocky Flats also is being touted as a model for cleanup and closure.
	www.bouldernews.com /news/local/17a2006.html (1160 words)

	Rocky Flats Plant: Waste Management: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Rocky Flats adopted several different practices to manage its waste, including the use of burial pits and trenches, evaporation ponds, drum storage, and onsite landfills.
		Rocky Flats developed a method of pond sludge solidification in 1985 to deal with waste which ultimately led to serious problems.
		In 1969, Rocky Flats covered the area with an asphalt pad to halt the migration of contaminated soil offsite.
	www.eh.doe.gov /ohre/new/findingaids/epidemiologic/rockyplant/waste/intro.html (2465 words)

	Prescribed Burns At Rocky Flats Released Radiation - Metallic Tastes
		If approved, the 6,000-plus-acre nuclear buffer zone surrounding Rocky Flats would be fitted with hiking trails and opened up for field trips to allow school children to observe "wildlife habitat." But there is a problem with the plan.
		Rocky Flats is the only DOE nuclear facility with a one-mile buffer zone - the only protection for the 3.8 million-plus residents of metropolitan Denver.George Bush is currently considering a national policy promoting prescribed burns for vegetation control across the US.
		Rocky Flats personnel refused to pre-test the vegetation in a burn-box under controlled laboratory conditions to determine what kind of contamination might be released in the ash.
	www.rense.com /general12/prescribed.htm (983 words)

	Rocky Flats Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Informal oversight started in the 1970’s and was reinforced in 1989 in the Agreement in Principle between DOE and Colorado, in the Interagency Agreement in 1991 among DOE, EPA and CDPHE, and again in 1996 in the Rocky Flats Cleanup Agreement among DOE, EPA and CDPHE.
		RFETS, formerly the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, is owned by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and manufactured components for nuclear weapons for the nation's defense until 1992.
		Rocky Flats is one of the EPA Superfund sites, and was listed on the National Priorities List in 1989.
	www.cdphe.state.co.us /hm/rf/rfhom.asp (277 words)

	Rocky Flats Fire: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The AEC chose the site because Rocky Flats possessed a dry, moderate climate, was isolated enough not to require the displacement of many people, and had a supporting population in the vicinity.
		Rocky Flats did the foundry and machine shop work needed to manufacture and assemble the pits into finished products and then shipped them to the DOE Pantex Facility near Amarillo, Texas, for final assembly.
		Rocky Flats' inactive records are housed in two main locations: the Building 881 Archives and the DFRC.
	www.eh.doe.gov /ohre/new/findingaids/epidemiologic/rockyfire/intro.html (6686 words)

	ROCKY FLATS
		For nearly 40 years, the Rocky Flats Plant was a key part of the Federal government's nationwide complex for nuclear weapons research, development, and production.
		Rocky Flats provided unique processing capabilities for the fabrication of weapons components from plutonium, uranium, beryllium, and stainless steel.
		Operations at Rocky Flats were curtailed in December 1989 to address suspected safety concerns.
	www.nukeworker.com /nuke_facilities/North_America/usa/DOE_Facilities/rocky_flats/index.shtml (2094 words)

	Rocky Flats Plant -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The production facilities consisted of linked (Steel containing chromium that makes it resistant to corrosion) stainless steel (additional info and facts about gloveboxes) gloveboxes which contained the equipment which forged and machined the parts for the triggers.
		Rocky flats was the site of a fire in 1969 which started in oily rags inside a (additional info and facts about glovebox) glovebox in a production facility.
		Experience gained during an earlier fire in 1958 helped in fighting the fire which was contained, but is nevertheless considered one of the worst industrial accidents in US history.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/rocky_flats_plant.htm (315 words)

	Rocky Flats, Colorado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In addition, Rocky Flats made strides in the development of improved planning tools, initiating the conversion process that will guide economic development of the site, and providing the public and other stakeholders with opportunities to be involved in the transition decisions that will affect the surrounding community.
		Rocky Flats is currently involved in a collaborative effort with scientists and engineers from the academic arena and industry to develop thermal treatment technologies for use at Rocky Flats and elsewhere.
		In addition, the Rocky Flats Local Impact Initiative, a group of affected local governments, residents, regulators, and business owners, and other interested organizations, will be working with the Department during 1995 to develop a Future Land Use Plan.
	web.em.doe.gov /em94/swrfp.html (742 words)

	Rocky Flats: The bait-and-switch cleanup \| thebulletin.org
		At Rocky Flats, where from 1952 to 1989 the Energy Department produced plutonium pits for the U.S. nuclear arsenal, Energy is using a "risk-based end state" approach to cleanup.
		At Rocky Flats, the Energy Department and the regulators are following convention and using 20 as the RBE for plutonium in calculating risk to a future wildlife refuge worker, their "maximally exposed individual." In theory, if the refuge worker is protected, all other users of the site will be protected.
		McKinley and Balkany's claims are reinforced by a recent report by former Rocky Flats worker and whistle-blower Jacque Brever who charges that the Rocky Flats cleanup is based in part on incomplete and falsified data that was discredited during the grand jury investigation but was provided to regulators as the basis for cleanup nonetheless.
	www.thebulletin.org /article.php?art_ofn=jf05moore (4147 words)

	Rocky Flats - U.S. EPA Region 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Rocky Flats shut its operations in 1989 in response to alleged violations of environmental statutes that were made after a raid by the FBI and the EPA.
		The Rocky Flats site, which DOE renamed the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site, is located on 6,500 acres in Jefferson County, 16 miles northwest of downtown Denver.
		Most of the activities at the site are being conducted under the terms of the Rocky Flats Cleanup Agreement signed by DOE, EPA and Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) in July 1996.
	www.epa.gov /region8/superfund/sites/co/rocky.html (1694 words)

	Rocky Mountain News: Local
		The long-muzzled FBI agent who led the 1989 raid on the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant is accusing federal prosecutors of obstructing that investigation and misleading the public on the danger of radioactive dumping there.
		In 1989, the FBI raided the Department of Energy atom bomb plant at Rocky Flats, which had been ignoring pollution laws on the grounds of national security.
		Retired FBI agent Lipsky is joined in his allegations by Rocky Flats grand jury foreman Wes McKinley, a newly elected Colorado state legislator; former Rocky Flats worker Jacque Brever; and their attorney, Caron Balkany.
	www.rockymountainnews.com /drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3446110,00.html (811 words)

	Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge Act of 2001
		Since 1992, the mission of Rocky Flats has changed from the production of nuclear weapons components to cleanup and closure in a manner that is safe, environmentally and socially responsible, physically secure, and cost-effective.
		(5) Rocky Flats provides habitat for many wildlife species, including a number of threatened species and endangered species, and is marked by the presence of rare xeric tallgrass prairie plant communities.
		(9) ROCKY FLATS TRUSTEES- The term `Rocky Flats Trustees' means the Federal and State of Colorado entities that have been identified as trustees for the Rocky Flats under section 107(f)(2) of the Comprehensive, Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9607(f)(1)).
	www.theorator.com /bills107/hr812.html (2796 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Amanda Griscom Little \| The Radioactive Cover-Up at Rocky Flats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Next month, Lipsky will be party to a lawsuit against DOJ in conjunction with Wes McKinley, the former leader of the Rocky Flats grand jury, and Jacque Brever, a former chemical operator at the plant who suffers from radiation exposure, in an effort to unseal the documents.
		The plaintiffs are concerned, in particular, about a 2001 congressional decision to turn Rocky Flats into a wildlife refuge, which may have as many as 16 miles of trails for hiking and horseback riding.
		Former Rocky Flats employee Jacque Brever, who claims to have read more than 16,000 documents on the cleanup, told Muckraker that the effort is "so bad you wouldn't even believe it." She said several fields and hillsides that had been dumping grounds for toxic and radioactive wastes have been excluded from the cleanup.
	www.truthout.org /docs_05/012305G.shtml (1446 words)

	Chapter 8: Bomb Production at Rocky Flats: Death Downwind, "KILLING OUR OWN", 1982
		According to a study based on figures from Dow Chemical, which operated Rocky Flats at the time, some thirteen grams of plutonium were routinely deposited daily on the first stage of filters in Building 771.
		Rocky Flats made such plutonium--once it was chemically processed--into triggers.
		A separate study of a large suburban area near Rocky Flats found a congenital malformation rate of 14.5 per 1000 births as opposed to 10.4 per 1000 for the rest of the county, and 10.1 for the state overall.[31]
	www.ratical.com /radiation/KillingOurOwn/KOO8.html (5561 words)

	RMPJC - LeRoy Moore - Rocky Flats: Bait and Switch Cleanup, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Jan 2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		After the Rocky Flats nuclear facility cleanup is complete, most of the 6,500-acre site, located 16 miles from downtown Denver, will be handed over to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to be maintained as a National Wildlife Refuge.
		Documents from an investigation into environmental crimes committed at Rocky Flats could help the public and the government agencies responsible for cleanup learn valuable information about the level of contamination at the site—if they weren't locked away in the vault of a Denver courthouse.
		He calls this a "genetic uncertainty problem." [20] His work suggests that wildlife at the Rocky Flats refuge could be harmed more than helped by conditions at the site and that the effects of the residual contamination could extend beyond the boundaries of the site.
	www.rmpjc.org /2005/RockyFlats/AtomicScientists (3693 words)

	UCB Libraries \| GovPubs \| Rocky Flats Materials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Rocky Flats Materials from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment This is a list of materials donated to the University Libraries.
		Rocky Flats Electronic Reading Room--a collection of full text reports from the DOE, the EPA, the General Accounting Office (GAO), Congress, and others.
		Rocky Flats Environmental Data Dynamic Information Exchange (EDDIE)--"will provide environmental monitoring information to Stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
	ucblibraries.colorado.edu /govpubs/co/rockyind.htm (257 words)

	Rocky Flats' Road to Recovery
		Rocky Flats also benefited from some good fortune.
		And the Rocky Flats region was not economically dependent on the
		Rocky Flats is already home to many species of birds and mammals, including
	www.colorado.edu /Sewall/ramirez/roadrec.htm (1335 words)

	> energy.gov : Press Releases : Final Transuranic Waste Shipment Leaves Rocky Flats
		GOLDEN, CO. – A major environmental victory was achieved at the Rocky Flats Site in Golden, Colo., today when the final remaining shipment of radioactive, transuranic (TRU) waste left the property on a truck bound for an underground waste repository in New Mexico.
		During the Cold War, components for nuclear weapons were made at the Rocky Flats site using radioactive and hazardous materials including plutonium, uranium and beryllium.
		At Rocky Flats today, workers looked on as the last of the site’s TRU waste left for final disposal at DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP) in Carlsbad, N. Mex. Trucks from Rocky Flats have traveled safely nearly 1.5 million miles since 1999, carrying over 15,000 cubic meters of transuranic/transuranic mixed waste to WIPP.
	www.energy.gov /engine/content.do?PUBLIC_ID=17781&BT_CODE=PR_PRESSRELEASES&TT_CODE=PRESSRELEASE (499 words)

	RMPJC - Rocky Flats Cleanup - Fact Sheet (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The plutonium danger: Among the variety of toxins in the Rocky Flats environment, plutonium is the contaminant of principal concern.
		The agencies thus should clean Rocky Flats to a level more protective than mandated by major regulatory standards both because they can and because leaving so much plutonium in the soil is unsafe, especially in the long-term.
		At some future time, after fences fall and memory fails, Rocky Flats is likely to be inhabited by families who eat homegrown food and for generations spend up to 8400 hours per year on the site, much of this time outdoors.
	www.rmpjc.org /2002/FlatsCleanup-Facts.html (1346 words)

	Rundle readies plans for Rocky Flats refuge
		Job: Manager of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and future manager of the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge.
		Later this spring, Rundle and his colleagues will begin holding public meetings about how the refuge at Rocky Flats may be used, once the former nuclear weapons plant site is cleaned up and closed down.
		Rocky Flats is scheduled for closure at the end of 2006.
	web.dailycamera.com /science/profiles/10pspro.html (409 words)

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