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The Rocky Flats Horror Picture Show
Ex-FBI agent charges feds with radioactive coverup at Rocky Flats |
Amanda Griscom Little |
21 Jan 2005 |
Muckraker |
| The plotline sounds as absurd as a made-for-TV movie: An FBI agent exposes deadly contamination at an old nuclear-weapons plant, but the federal government conceals the findings. Years later, Congress votes to convert the tract into a wildlife refuge and open it to school field trips and public recreation. The site becomes a poster child for eco-friendly nucl ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, Department of Energy, Department of Justice, Muckraker, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics) |
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