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People may like Colorado weather, but really, are they totally
oblivious to its extremely hazardous corporate/government activity? For
decades, it's been on the list to avoid for its nuclear wasteland. What gives?
Natalia
A.V. KREBS, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST - On February 14 some 12,000
homeowners downwind from the shut down Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, near Denver, Colorado won a $553.9 million judgment from a federal jury after a four-month trial that charged the plant's former operators --- Rockwell International Corp. and The Dow Chemical Company --- of contaminating their land with plutonium released from the plant. However, the defendants who operated the plant for the U.S. Department of Energy from 1952 to 1989 will be indemnified by the federal government, meaning that the DOE will pay any judgment and has been paying the companies' legal fees. . . Rocky Flats opened in 1953, and before it was shut down in 1989 it produced more than 60,000 nuclear weapon parts. Its closing came after the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the site, fearing that radioactive materials were being illegally discharged. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |
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