/tags/rocky-flats-national-wildlife-refuge Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge en-US Copyright KUNC/Community Radio for Northern Colorado 2020 Wed, 05 Feb 2025 12:35:00 GMT /podcast/inthenoco/2025-02-05/a-new-film-explores-the-history-of-rocky-flats-from-nuclear-weapons-plant-to-wildlife-preserve Workers at the Rocky Flats plant northwest of Denver helped build nuclear weapons during the Cold War. The plant is gone and the land is now a wildlife refuge. A new documentary looks at the controversial history of Rocky Flats, and the memories of its employees. We talk with the director, on today’s In The NoCo. Wed, 05 Feb 2025 12:35:00 GMT /podcast/inthenoco/2025-02-05/a-new-film-explores-the-history-of-rocky-flats-from-nuclear-weapons-plant-to-wildlife-preserve In The NoCo, Erin O'Toole, Brad Turner, Ariel Lavery /news/2025-02-03/55-gallon-drum-discovered-in-rocky-flats-area-declared-safe-after-investigation A large drum found at Rocky Flats, once home to a nuclear weapons manufacturer, appears to be of no concern. Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:09:18 GMT /news/2025-02-03/55-gallon-drum-discovered-in-rocky-flats-area-declared-safe-after-investigation Alex Murphy /podcast/inthenoco/2024-11-01/workers-at-rocky-flats-helped-build-americas-nuclear-arsenal-a-new-film-digs-into-memories-of-the-controversial-plant Workers at the Rocky Flats plant northwest of Denver helped build nuclear weapons during the Cold War. The plant is gone now, buried beneath land that’s now a wildlife refuge. A new documentary opening at the Denver Film Festival looks at the controversial history of Rocky Flats, and the memories of its employees. We hear from the director, on today's In The NoCo. Fri, 01 Nov 2024 09:35:00 GMT /podcast/inthenoco/2024-11-01/workers-at-rocky-flats-helped-build-americas-nuclear-arsenal-a-new-film-digs-into-memories-of-the-controversial-plant In The NoCo, Erin O'Toole, Brad Turner /science/2019-10-04/heres-what-you-should-know-about-radiation-at-rocky-flats Story updated Oct. 11, 2019.Rocky Flats used to be a nuclear weapons plant in Northern Colorado. Now, parts of the site that used to be a security… Fri, 04 Oct 2019 22:25:30 GMT /science/2019-10-04/heres-what-you-should-know-about-radiation-at-rocky-flats Rae Ellen Bichell /show/kuncs-colorado-edition/2019-10-03/looking-back-at-the-history-of-rocky-flats New soil samples from Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge show safe levels of plutonium at the former nuclear weapons manufacturing site. That's after… Thu, 03 Oct 2019 22:30:00 GMT /show/kuncs-colorado-edition/2019-10-03/looking-back-at-the-history-of-rocky-flats Colorado Edition /environment/2018-06-14/refuge-at-former-nuke-weapons-site-to-open-in-september Court documents in a pending lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service say trails at the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge in northern… Thu, 14 Jun 2018 19:59:58 GMT /environment/2018-06-14/refuge-at-former-nuke-weapons-site-to-open-in-september Associated Press /environment/2017-08-17/proposed-rocky-flats-visitors-center-renews-debate-over-what-to-do-with-former-nuclear-site Building a visitor center at a wildlife refuge doesn’t sound controversial. But when that refuge is on the site of the security buffer zone of a former… Thu, 17 Aug 2017 11:00:00 GMT /environment/2017-08-17/proposed-rocky-flats-visitors-center-renews-debate-over-what-to-do-with-former-nuclear-site /environment/2016-05-12/the-what-have-i-missed-guide-to-rocky-flats-recent-trail-troubles A greenway to connect Denver with Rocky Mountain National Park would provide greater access to wildlife refuges by foot and by bike, but some say the plan… Thu, 12 May 2016 11:00:00 GMT /environment/2016-05-12/the-what-have-i-missed-guide-to-rocky-flats-recent-trail-troubles Ann Marie Awad