August 30, 2020
Doom With a View
By Kristen Iversen
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When: Friday September 4th, 6:00PM MDT
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Where: Online Launch Event: Click Here to Register
With this webinar, Full Body Burden author Kristen Iversen officially launches her new book Doom with a View: Historical and Cultural Contexts of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant. Her new anthology contains essays contributed by 19 authors from around the country, representing a variety of disciplines in science and academia, all with deep connections to Rocky Flats and related matters.
August 26, 2020
Doom With a View: Jeffco Health Director Looks Back on Rocky Flats
“You and Jefferson County killed my husband!” The woman on the telephone was almost screaming now. The emotional anger and mental agony were palpable as she spat the words at me. “I will never talk to you or anyone from Jefferson County,” she shouted as she slammed her telephone receiver down.
It was the summer of 1990. I had recently been appointed as the executive director of the Jefferson County Health Department. Jefferson County, metropo...
August 19, 2020
Western Shoshone land stolen for nuclear weapons tests and waste dump
by Ian Zabarte, Principal Man for the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation of Indians
Click here to read the full article
Shoshone land was illegally seized by the U.S government, breaking a historic treaty, first for the atomic test site in Nevada, and then for the planned — but still canceled — Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste dump. Throughout, the Shoshone people have paid a terrible price.
As a Shoshone, we always had horses. My grandfather always told me, “Stop kicking up dust.” Now I understand that it was because of the radioac...
July 24, 2020
Background: The Rocky Mountain Greenway is a proposed mountain bike trail that would be built through contaminated land adjacent to the former nuclear weapons plant, Rocky Flats, 16 miles North West of Denver. If built, this trail would endanger public health by exposing trail workers and the public to respirable particles of plutonium dioxide and other contaminants left in the environment from nuclear bomb production at Rocky Flats. Please send a statement to USFWS opposing this irresponsible and immoral project. Link to the July 2020 USFWS Environmental Assessment.
Send comments to rockyflats@fws.gov by July 30t...
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Rocky Flats is a former nuclear weapons plant 16 miles North West of Denver that operated from 1952-1989. The plant manufactured 70,000 plutonium bomb triggers for the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal.
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Urgent Goals for Public Health Include:
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No public recreation at Rocky Flats
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Prevent construction of the Jefferson Parkway
This website is a resource for comprehensive information regarding Rocky Flats. Rocky Flats Nuclear Guardianship includes a 40 year history of public engagement beginning with the Rocky Flats Truth Force in 1978.
The Nuclear Guardianship Ethic is proposed as an evolving expression of values to guide decision-making on the management of radioactive materials.
