Colorado Experience: Colorado's Cold War (Rocky Flats)
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- In 1951, in the early days of the Cold War, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission announced
the construction of a new facility in Arvada, Colorado, 16 miles from Metro Denver. Although the general public was largely unaware of what went on at the site, the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant manufactured the plutonium “trigger” used in every nuclear weapon created in the United States. For the next several decades, Rocky Flats was a major stimulus to the local economy, providing thousands of jobs to area residents. But it was also a source of increasing controversy, as reports of radioactive contamination
affecting the local environment and the truth about what was really going on at Rocky Flats
became public. Colorado’s Cold War explores the legacy of Rocky Flats and the local impact of a global conflict.
For additional resources related to Rocky Flats, visit www.rmpbs.org/coloradoexperience.
My grandpa worked at Rocky Flats and passed in 2004 from an unidentifiable lung cancer. I believe it was from the exposures at RF.
Such a shame they trashed that land. The views of the flatirons and mountain ranges is insane.
Brilliant programme. Makes me frightened and sad about what went on there. Well done to PBS and greetings from Ireland!
I know a guy in Ireland & his wife from Turkey. A young really smart kid found a lot of pieces of nuclear material. They shipped it in a box, the airport security people looked at it did not know was it was and it got through.
Seems like a lot of 20th century industrial facilities were very effective at making things, but were too lazy/negligent about being clean because of costs and a lack of respect for the hazards of the materials they handled. This can be seen in many countries around the world even today unfortunately..
@MotoIncognito Yeah they did unfortunately...
@@frizzlefry1921
Supposition on your part.
My parents got paid out on a settlement at some point of time in the 90s for just living in the neighborhood east of there because they lost value to their homes living next to their
Its still a home bargain, I mean considering the alternative. One home goes for 500k in Lakewood or Golden, but the same home goes for 400k out by Rocky Flats. But who wants to live there? --An out of stater who doesn't know. I've been here 17 years. I didn't know when I first came. I heard rumors, but I always thought they were just that, rumors. I finally read a book about it ten years ago, and then I knew.
Yeah idk about that older guy who said he was in the top 10 of most exposed people that worked around all that stuff and has had 0 health issues. He don’t look like a worker.
Isn’t it an EPA superfund site now?
Foxy Thunder no hwy 93 run right past the site and homes are now being built within miles of the waste site.
@@derekmwolff ...mkayyy...that's scary. Very.
My father worked at Rocky Flats for many years. Shoutouts to the closure team, today you can walk your dog out there and you would never even know anything was there
Yeah
But it could be contaminated to this day
Whilst the use of the nuclear weapons on Japan was, at least in my opinion, necessary but unfortunate, without them the end of WWII could have been very different and maybe delayed by Russia and China trying to conquer 🇯🇵 for their own ends. The vast amount of nuclear weapons produced by the USA and Russia as however OTT, Colorados contribution producing the triggers is interesting but also quite sad considering there end use in potentially ending the world, for everything good about Colorado this is a blot on that record. Sorry Colorado, but nuclear weapons are the worst invention ever, and I wish the technology could be put back into its “Pandora’s Box”, but that’s no reflection on Colorado or the citizens of the state, and the workers were doing a job that did ultimately protect the USA and the world so they don’t deserve to be vilified.
Thanks for sharing this interesting and informative documentary, sad but interesting. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
The bombs were dropped in August.
Japan was ready to surrender in January.
Truth!
@@obsoleteoptics that is the first time I have heard anyone say that, but if you mean the January before the bombs were dropped then I don’t agree, if they were ready to surrender then why didn’t they?, they knew that the terms of surrender were unconditional, there was no room for negotiation, so they were fighting on and costing them and more importantly the allies lives.
he's not kidding. Getting a "scrub" down at medical sucked!!
Scary
i want to know more about this footage how take the picture's????? i believe my family member is in this footage.
myers laboratory We related?
In 1959, I was in the British zone and saw the Russian memorial & took 2 pictures of it the memorial from the front and the side in English. Later, we drove out to visit my son & his wife where they lived at about the 8,000 feet level.
Been there, or rather, Dad went there. We knew it wasn’t Scrubbing Bubbles! A govt. run nuclear lab just has that look and smell.
Was on the tracks....
So most civilians actually did know what was going on there. Sure it was supposed to be a secret, but employees talked and word got out.
Imagine that
I saw Chernobyl and the 1st sarcaphagus and the new one which would last 100 years.
In the made for kids video it says the levels of radiation on the land is at a safe level for workers but the problem is its teaching kids thats there's an acceptable level of radiation I disagree with that
@MotoIncognito I don't think you understand the point im trying to convey
@MotoIncognito there's a big difference between natural radiation and man made radiation if you can't understand that then you have no hope of understanding why its a problem to teach kids that
@MotoIncognito natural radiation isn't abundant enough to cause any actual harm man made radiation is almost always found in high concentrations
@MotoIncognito im not even gunna bothere explaing this to you because you still don't understand the difference between the two
@MotoIncognito if you swipe up and read my comment you can clearly see i do not say the acceptable amount is 0 your grasping at straws I also went ahead and quoted my comment
So angry and sad!! Dammit
Michele Victory what that people had jobs?
Charles Surber The majority of people who had jobs there are no longer alive as a result of long term radiation exposure.
So yes, personally I’m angry and sad that this happened to my community. ESPECIALLY because of the obvious lack of care or concern for it’s well-being.
Robotic tractors to plant trees . They. Will help disipate the radiation.
Am I imagining this, or am I repeatedly hearing people in this video (and most others like this one), repeatedly saying "nuké'lar" , instead of saying the word "Nuclear" ! ?
-in this video at: 4.59min, 5.04min, 5.50min, 19.23min, and 27.01min
Or am I mistaken, as english is not my native language ?
Thank you for this program. I lived below RF for over 20 years, worked there for 10 in the gloveboxes and still believe that most of the issues that people are worried about for this area are non issues. I would build a house there and never think twice about it.
And you are lying
Most likely you're already dead
Well from the pics it looks like middle of nowhere at the time I drove by it a few time just big field no one had three eyes so I guess Boulder all turned out fine oh also every other site all over every state
I'm wondering what new species of animals are going to grow out there on the nature preserve that Rocky Flats is now. Frogs with horns maybe? How 'bout a real jackelope. Maybe a new bread of monkeys that eat worms instead of bananas.
I just found this. I started at Rocky Flats in 1979 til 2004. We did some really “interesting”work there. I worked in the PSZ my entire career. Some projects were so far ahead of everyone else and impossible tolerances.
Jesus Christ!!!
It would surely be developed if it wasn't still contaminated.
It is still contaminated, the DOE does not deny that. The buffer zone is now a wildlife preserve and cannot be developed.
That’s what we all thought too. I grew up less than 3 miles south of Rocky Flats and can safely say it’s not a healthy place to live or raise children.