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Article: Lawsuit Pits South Carolina Governor against Six Tons of Plutonium.
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- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Article date:
- May 5, 2002
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Byline: Charles Seabrook
May 5--ROCKY FLATS, Colo.--At the peak of the Cold War, 8,000 workers labored round the clock in top-secret buildings on the windswept prairie west of Denver to build the deadliest devices ever invented -- thermonuclear bombs.
Now, with Russia and the United States cutting their nuclear arsenals, the fortresslike Rocky Flats site -- once one of the world's most dangerous bomb plants -- will shut down by 2006. Its grounds will become a wildlife refuge.
First, though, the government must level hundreds of buildings and remove a huge volume of highly radioactive material left from decades of making hydrogen bombs.
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