Re: [Futurework] Nuclear Fallout in Colorado

[Darryl and Natalia]

All mail scanned by NAV   Actually I was implying the opposite: that people do know, but continue to settle down in Colorado anywhere, anyhow.   People keep trying to move there, many from Canada. It's not just about the Rocky Flats though; a lot of nuclear testing and manufacturing has and still takes place in the state; some major bombs were allowed to be detonated there (and in Nevada) in past decades, and I doubt that activity has altogether stopped because of the terrain that it is. Drinking the water let alone breathing the air would negate for me any sane reason to set foot in either state, yet folks claim its dry air is good for their lungs. To live there, one risks becoming a casualty of experimentation in that nasty, slow death kind of way as a diurnal experience, coupled with the hovering threat of catastrophic accidents that would really, really hurt.   Not like deciding on Florida, where you can always drink bottled water from Colorado springs, right???   Speaking from the lovely fault line island that is worth the risk because unlike the rest of the continent, it will stay afloat!   Natalia  ----- Original Message ----- From: Lawrence de Bivort To: 'Darryl and Natalia' ; futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 3:51 PM Subject: RE: [Futurework] Nuclear Fallout in Colorado Why in the world, Natalia, do you assert that people are ‘totally oblivious’ to Rocky Flats?   Cheers, Lawry   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Darryl and Natalia Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 6:22 PM To: futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca Subject: [Futurework] Nuclear Fallout in Colorado     All mail scanned by NAV   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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