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Radioactive contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant. One of four example estimates of the plutonium (Pu- 2.
Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant. The Rocky Flats Plant, a former U. S. Much lower concentrations of radioactive isotopes were released throughout the operational life of the plant from 1. Prevailing winds from the plant swept airborne contamination south and east, into populated areas northwest of Denver. The contamination of the Denver area by plutonium from the fires and other sources was not publicly reported until the 1. According to a 1. Edward Martell, .
The plant has since been shut down, with its buildings demolished and completely removed from the site. The Rocky Flats Plant was declared a Superfund site in 1. February 1. 99. 2. Removal of the plant and surface contamination was largely completed in the late 1. Nearly all underground contamination was left in place, and measurable radioactive environmental contamination in and around Rocky Flats will probably persist for thousands of years. The land formerly occupied by the plant is now the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge. Plans to make this refuge accessible for recreation have been repeatedly delayed due to lack of funding.
All buildings have since been demolished from the site. The Rocky Flats Plant was located south of Boulder, Colorado and northwest of Denver. Originally under management of the Dow Chemical Company, management was transferred to Rockwell in 1. Production of parts for nuclear weapons began in 1.
At the time, the precise nature of the work at Rocky Flats was a closely guarded secret. The plant produced fission cores for nuclear weapons, used to . They are often referred to as . Additional sources of actinide contamination include inadequate pondcrete vitrification attempts and routine releases during the decades of plant operations. The fire spread to the flammable glove box materials, including plexiglas windows and rubber gloves. The fire rapidly spread through the interconnected glove boxes and ignited the large bank of High- efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters located in a plenum downstream. Within minutes the first filters had burned out, allowing plutonium particles to escape from the building exhaust stacks.
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The building exhaust fans stopped operating due to fire damage at 1. PM, which ended the majority of the plutonium release. Fire fighters initially used carbon dioxide fire extinguishers because water can act as a moderator and cause plutonium to go critical.
They resorted to water hoses when the dry fire extinguishers proved ineffective. News reports at the time reported, per the Atomic Energy Commission's briefing, that there was slight risk of light contamination and that no fire fighters had been contaminated. Thousands of 5. 5- gallon drums of the waste were stored outside in an unprotected earthen area called the 9. Fire fighters again resorted to fighting the fire with water after dry extinguishers proved ineffective. Despite recommendations after the 1. About 1,4. 00 kilograms (3,1. The 1. 96. 9 fire, however, led local health officials to perform independent tests of the area surrounding Rocky Flats to determine the extent of the contamination.
This resulted in the first releases of information to the public that populated areas southeast of Rocky Flats had been contaminated. These were stored in the open under tarps on asphalt pads.
The pondcrete turned out to be weak storage, an outcome that had been predicted by Rockwell's own engineers. A large portion of the plutonium released into the creeks sank to the bottom and is now found in the streambeds of Walnut and Woman Creeks, and on the bottom of local public reservoirs just outside Rocky Flats: Great Western Reservoir, (no longer used for city of Broomfield drinking water consumption as of 1. At the time of the 1. AEC officials told the Denver Post that the fire .
Releases from previous years had not been reported publicly prior to the fire. Fish and Wildlife Service surveyed tissues harvested from deer that lived at Rocky Flats for plutonium and other actinides. Isotopes of plutonium, americium, and uranium were detected, with the highest measured activity being 0.
Ci/g (2. 36. 0 seconds per disintegration) for uranium- 2. The increased cancer risk, as reported by the study, to an individual who ate 2. Rocky Flats deer meat per year over a 7. This is near the conservative end of the EPA's acceptable risk range. Specialist Marco Kaltofen of the Boston Chemical Data Corp., who did the technical analysis of the samples, pointed out that this plutonium laden dust certainly endangered the health of anyone who spent much time in this crawl space. Inhalation is the primary pathway by which plutonium enters the body, though plutonium can also enter the body through a wound. Researchers noted that plutonium contamination from the plant was present, but did not match the wind conditions of the 1.
The 1. 95. 7 fire and leaking barrels on Pad 9. Authors Krey and Hardy estimated the total quantity of plutonium contamination outside of Rocky Flats's boundaries to be 2. Ci (3. 6 grams or 0. The study also noted that plutonium levels just outside the boundaries of the plant were hundreds of times higher than the background level caused by global fallout from nuclear testing, and that contamination to the north of the plant was probably caused by normal operations rather than accidental releases.
Carl Johnson, health director for Jefferson County, showed a 4. Denver suburbs downwind of Rocky Flats compared to the rest of Colorado. Moreover, he found a 1. DOE estimated one. Real estate interests pressed the county to fire Johnson, claiming his findings hurt their industry. After electing a real estate investor to the county board, they succeeded.
Therefore, Crump et al.'s explanation must be preferred. Cobb and the EPA reported plutonium concentrations from about 5.
Colorado. A comparison study was done of those who lived near Rocky Flats with those who lived far from this nuclear weapons production site. The ratio of Pu- 2. Pu- 2. 39 was . In this report, health risk estimates for off- site humans had a variance of four orders of magnitude, from . James Ruttenber led a study on the health effects of plutonium.
Conducted by the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the study concluded that lung cancer is linked to plutonium inhalation. His group's findings were part of a broader study that tracked 1. Rocky Flats plant between 1. Their research also found that these workers were 2. This amount was less than the company had been paid in bonuses for running the plant as determined by the GAO, and yet was also by far the highest hazardous- waste fine ever; four times larger than the previous record. Justice Department and Rockwell the cost of paying any civil penalties would ultimately have been borne by U. S. While any criminal penalties allotted to Rockwell would not have been covered by U.
S. Attorney, Ken Fimberg (later Ken Scott). Press leaks by both members of the DOJ and the grand jury occurred in violation of secrecy Rule 6(e) regarding Grand Jury information. The public contest led to U. S. Congressional oversight committee hearings chaired by Congressman Howard Wolpe, which issued subpoenas to DOJ principals despite several instances of the DOJ's refusal to comply. The hearings, whose findings include that the Justice Department had . According to its subsequent publications, the Rocky Flats special grand jury had compiled indictments charging three DOE officials and five Rockwell employees with environmental crimes. The grand jury also wrote a report, intended for the public's consumption per their charter, lambasting the conduct of DOE and Rocky Flats contractors for .
Rockwell International Corp., was filed in January 1. Rockwell and Dow Chemical (due to the indemnity of nuclear contractors, the award would have be paid by the federal government). Sixteen years later, the plaintiffs were awarded $9. Circuit Court of Appeals subsequently threw out the verdict and ordered a retrial.
A further appeal was rejected without comment by the United States Supreme Court in June 2. He alleged that his termination was due to concerns by the board members that his reports of contamination would lower property values. The suit was settled out of court for $1. The RI/FS report (RCRA Facility Investigation- Remedial Investigation/Corrective Measures Study- Feasibility Study) concludes that the Peripheral OU is already in a state protective of human health and the environment. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) stewardship in 2. EPA. According to the USFWS, .
Government's efforts to make the area surrounding the former plant into the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge have been controversial due to the contamination, much of which is underground and not remediated. The DOE's assessment of the Central Operating Unit indicates that the long- term risk to citizens living outside the boundaries of Rocky Flats is negligible. The protest was coordinated with other anti- nuclear demonstrations across the country.
Daniel Ellsberg and Allen Ginsberg were among the 2. The demonstration followed more than six months of continuous protests that included an attempted blockade of the railroad tracks leading to the site. No arrests were made. In Quigley, Dianne; Lowman, Amy; Wing, Steve.
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