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Rocky Flats
Rocky Flats announces physical completion! After ten years the former nuclear bomb plant west of Denver is no more.
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• 6,200: Acres, including a 400-acre industrial zone, where bomb-making took place <o =""></o>
• 800: Structures in the now-dismantled industrial zone <o =""></o>
• 5: Number of large, heavily contaminated plutonium processing facilities, covering more than 1 million square feet <o =""></o>
• 600,000 cubic meters: Amount of radioactive and hazardous waste removed from the site, enough to fill a string of rail cars 90 miles long<o =""></o>>
• 30,000 liters: Amount of plutonium and enriched uranium solutions stored in tanks and piping before cleanup began <o =""></o>
• 512,000 tons: Amount of miscellaneous waste, such as asphalt, wood and concrete, for disposal in regular landfills <o =""></o>
• 21 tons: Amount of "weapons-grade nuclear material," much of it improperly stored, before the cleanup began <o =""></o>
• $36 billion: Original estimate of cleanup cost <o =""></o>
• 70 years: Original estimate for length of cleanup <o =""></o>
• $7 billion: Actual cost of cleanup <o =""></o>
• 10 years: Actual length of cleanupSource: Kaiser-Hill Co. <o =""></o>
This is where I have been working for the last ten years. I never thought that I would see the day.
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