$7 billion cleanup at Rocky Flats is complete

Denver Post ^ | October 16, 2005 | Kim McGuire

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Kaiser-Hill Co. officials on Thursday said they have completed the $7 billion Rocky Flats cleanup - a major milestone in the former nuclear- trigger plant's transformation into a public wildlife refuge.

The cleanup is the largest completed on a U.S. Department of Energy or federal Superfund toxic-waste site, project managers said.

More than 21 tons of weapons- grade nuclear material was removed, enough radioactive waste to fill a string of rail cars 90 miles long.

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There is so much bogosity in this article, I don't even know where to start.

[NativeNewYorker]

I drove by Rocky Flats a few weeks ago, and it looked like mostly barren prairie...

[Ken522]

That's because it has returned to its natural, pristine state ... absolutely worthless!

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It's not called Rocky Flats for nothing. It's flat, and it's rocky.

I don't know what they're proposing to hunt there, except maybe prairie dogs.

Hiking trails? "Look Maude, it's another rock." And only a thousand off-limits, still-contaminated sites?

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More than 21 tons of weapons- grade nuclear material was removed, enough radioactive waste to fill a string of rail cars 90 miles long.

I smell BS. A dump truck can hold 22 tons. I realize they need containment vessesl, so even if it were a half ton per containment vessel, that's still only 44 rail cars, not quite 90 miles.

[11Bush]

More than 21 tons of weapons- grade nuclear material was removed, enough radioactive waste to fill a string of rail cars 90 miles long.

These idiots throw out numbers that are so out of touch with reality that it is almost criminal.

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Cicil Engineers ping. I'm sure ENR will have much on this.

[The SISU kid]

Thanks for the ping, but ya doesn't have to call me Cicil...


8^)

[bert]

.....More than 21 tons..... say 42,000 pounds

By my reckoning that is only one truck load. Perhaps there is a lot of hot radioactive air included.

[wardaddy]

Is that worthless priest Berrigan still protesting there?

he and his buttbuddy Ellsberg.

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"Is that worthless priest Berrigan still protesting there?"

I don't know. It's been years since I lived there. Seems like I read his obit somewhere, but my memory could be playing me false.

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BTW, as a Catholic, I think "worthless" is far too kind.