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- <title>
- June 26, 1989: American Notes:Colorado
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- June 26, 1989 Kevin Costner:The New American Hero
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 31
- American Notes
- COLORADO
- Nuclear Mystery
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- <p> Past investigations of the Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant
- near Denver have revealed shabby management, freaky accidents and
- dangerous pollution, and 75 FBI agents are currently there looking
- for proof of fraud in the disposal and incineration of
- plutonium-laden wastes. But what has environmental officials most
- puzzled is something they never expected to find even at
- trouble-prone Rocky Flats: traces of radioactive strontium and
- cesium that a nuclear chain reaction could produce -- even though
- there is no nuclear reactor at the site. The Environmental
- Protection Agency has demanded a study to determine how the
- mysterious isotopes got to Rocky Flats.
- </p>
- <p> Last week the Department of Energy, which owns Rocky Flats,
- announced that state environmental officials would henceforth be
- allowed to inspect its plants and that if any safety violations
- were uncovered, the operators would be fired. In addition, state
- safety teams will conduct surprise aerial surveillances. Health
- and safety, says DOE Deputy Secretary Henson Moore, are "the first
- priority in the operation of any of our facilities."
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- </body></article>
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