/tags/rocky-flats Rocky Flats en-US Copyright KUNC/Community Radio for Northern Colorado 2020 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 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/2019-09-03/plutonium-test-results-slow-plans-for-denver-area-toll-road Broomfield city officials are suspending their search for investors to help build a toll road after a soil test found elevated levels of plutonium in the… Tue, 03 Sep 2019 21:10:37 GMT /environment/2019-09-03/plutonium-test-results-slow-plans-for-denver-area-toll-road Associated Press /environment/2019-07-31/u-s-cant-find-files-on-investigation-into-rocky-flats-plant The U.S. Department of Justice has lost track of more than 60 boxes of documents from a 27-year-old criminal investigation into safety and environmental… Wed, 31 Jul 2019 15:00:10 GMT /environment/2019-07-31/u-s-cant-find-files-on-investigation-into-rocky-flats-plant Associated Press /arts-life/2018-08-01/from-paris-on-the-platte-to-packer-dr-colorado-takes-a-walk-through-states-history It just makes sense to meet with CU Denver history professor Tom Noel -- also known as “Dr. Colorado” -- at History Colorado Center’s exhibit "Zoom In:… Wed, 01 Aug 2018 11:00:00 GMT /arts-life/2018-08-01/from-paris-on-the-platte-to-packer-dr-colorado-takes-a-walk-through-states-history Stacy Nick /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