Rocky Flats Cleanup

The World

The Department of Energy is using Rocky Flats as a model of efficiency in its project to cleanup and close some of the nation’s aging nuclear facilities. But, some say the cleanup is going too fast, and not far enough. David Barrett Wilson reports.

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