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<text id=89TT1664>
<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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