What’s all that digging at Rocky Flats about?
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- Опубліковано 26 січ 2025
- Construction crews are moving forward with a bridge connecting Westminster Open Space and Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge.
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All of the radioactive material was dug up and taken to Idaho, where it was dumped into a landfill on the grounds of the Idaho National Laboratory and buried under a few feet of dirt. All of it was later dug up and sorted in gloveboxes to separate the stuff that was still radioactive after 20-30 years in the Idaho lava desert. The stuff that was no longer "hot" was put in 55 gallon drums and put back in the ground. The stuff that was still "hot" was put in other 55 gallon drums and sent to New Mexico to be buried in a salt mine, about 1/2 mile underground. The last shipment of hot drums was taken to New Mexico about 3 years ago. I worked on the removal of the buried waste for nearly 4 years before moving to another environmental cleanup operation at the INL. My personal opinion is that a retired FBI agent is not likely to have the knowledge base that we had. They did background investigations on us to be sure that we didn't have ties to radical orgs or terrorists. They did not know what ionizing radiation is.
That's interesting as I was under the impression there were dump sites still on the plant site as well as the Rocky Mountain Arsenal. Let's face it, it's a great thing they cleaned it up but many times the waste was dumped in open pits and the two fires that happened surely contaminated a large swath of land. I also believe they "lost" a rather significant amount of Plutonium 239 over the years and also found a sizable amount of it in the ventilation system at the plant.
Then go build your house in the center of it and also make sure to get a water well over it 🙃👍🏼👍🏼
@@angelamorgun3993 Crazy, right? They just dumped stuff into the bottom of Stanley Lake and said "you're good". What? Oh I guess we should just be Happy that we got the lovely "wildlife refuge" up over there. glad I never agreed to live anywhere near Denver or north denver; I did work in Lafayette for quite a while.
They literally buried the buildings and furnaces under the park… they didn’t clean it up fully.
No "all of the radioactive material" was Not taken to Idaho. Plenty of it was buried in situ, and another good portion was dumped into Stanley Lake... Thousands of residential homes right there. Everyone who bought home in the area (cookie cutter developments) signed a waiver at the Way Bottom of their purchase agreement and they probably didn't read it.
They should declare it a monument to our stupidity.
The federal government said the site was all cleaned up. They wouldn’t lie, would they?
They never said that. They spent too the end of the budget and that was all. Oh it's quite dirty.
I’ll go with the Physicist on this one.
You bet. In today's atmosphere with unfounded conspiracy BS, it is easy for the real qualified, data and logic driven statements to get drowned out. Even in this report they gave the crackpot dude first go and equal time. A good example is the comment right above this one.
This looks like the area where they dug the original landfill area to stabilize soil from slipping downhill.
This is dumb
Maybe it's you that is dumb because you don't understand how insidious radioactive contamination can be ? Just asking.
I would not chance this for my family and me.
We already live in toxic soup.
A bit more toxicity, in the form of radiation (cancer-causing) is objectionable.
Right, it's called lifetime burden as radiation is cumulative in humans. A little here, a little there and then one straw breaks the camel's back. Just the history of that site is enough to make you run away screaming.
I bought a Geiger/Mueller tube after Fukushima went critical and measured radiation at Rocky Flats and it was quite a bit above background but not enough to run away really fast. Radiation is cumulative and you as a human being should try to keep your physical burden low. I did a radiation sweep of my home and I had an antique WW1 compass that had been painted with radium and I was shocked at the level of radiation it was emitting. Radium is an Alpha emitter so it's more of a threat when inhaled or ingested. The moral of the story is sweep off your own side of the street before worrying about your neighbor's mess.
What kind of meter
Love doesn't last forever...Plutonium does.
Depends on the isotope some are relatively short half-lives while others not so.