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Last of Plutonium Leaves Colo. Facility
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August 20, 2003
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Dateline: GOLDEN, Colo.
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Crews have finished removing the last of more than 12 tons of weapons-
grade plutonium left at Rocky Flats, marking a milestone in a $7 billion
cleanup of the former nuclear weapons site that closed in 1989.
The 6,000-acre site 15 miles northwest of Denver is slated to become
a national wildlife refuge after the $7 billion cleanup ends in 2006.
"Rocky Flats ... is no longer in the nuclear weapons business," Energy
Secretary Spencer Abraham said Tuesday in a statement issued in Washington.
Removal of the plutonium was finished 12 years ahead of schedule,
Abraham said. The material will be shipped to a site South Carolina ...
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