No more nukes

Posted by egable on July 13th, 2007 filed in Wildlife refuges

The Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge was officially established yesterday, as the Fish and Wildlife Service accepted 4,000 acres of land from the Department of Energy, marking the end of the site’s $7 billion cleanup. The 600 acres of land where the actual plutonium trigger work will remain closed to the public, however, and it will likely be several years before the rest of the refuge is opened to the public, according to the Associated Press. Although Colorado Sen. Wayne Allard praised the opening of the refuge, environmental groups remained skeptical that the site is actually safe. “Citizens who want to protect their health and safety should find some place other than the still-contaminated site of a former nuclear bomb plant to take their families for recreation,” said LeRoy Moore of the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center.