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Full Body Burden

Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
Oct 11, 2012
Here is a devastating documentary of Rocky Flats, a factory near Boulder, Colorado, that was established during the Cold War to process plutonium for nuclear weapons. The author touches on this and other sites in the U.S. that were contaminated with toxic wastes, such as Hanford, Washington, and areas in New Mexico. The human cost is summed up: "Governments are not supposed to poison their own people." Cover ups and lies by various government agencies, including the DOE and others, and companies hired to manage the site, including Rockwell International and others, eventually involve the court systems, where responsibility was ultimately evaded, after decades long delays. Read it and weep.