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Rocky Flats clippings

Call Number

VF Rocky Flats

Date

after 1978

Contents

1 vertical file.

Description

One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: the history of Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant. Topics include: timelines and history, Rocky Flats Virtual Museum, waste disposal plans, decontamination processes and cleanup, building demolitions, recreational uses, and activism. Also inlcuded is a 1978 copy of The Rocky Flats Monitor.

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Oral history interview with Eugene F. DeMayo, 2005

Call Number

OH1388-V

Date

2005

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Oral history interview with Ken Korkia, 2005

Call Number

OH1301-V

Date

2005

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Oral history interview with Rocky Flats Activists, 2006

Call Number

OH1441-V

Date

2006

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Oral history interview with LeRoy Moore, 2005

Call Number

OH1387-V

Date

2005

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Oral history interview with Ken Korkia, 1998

Call Number

OH1505

Date

1998

Description

Ken Korkia started working as a technical assistant to the Rocky Flats Cleanup Commission in 1990, and he was later hired as staff coordinator for the Rocky Flats Citizens Advisory Board. In this interview Korkia talks about developing a comprehensive awareness of what went on at Rocky Flats, and he details some of his contributions as an advocate for public participation in the cleanup process

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Oral history interview with Herb Bowman

Call Number

OH1269-V

Date

2004

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Oral history interview with Jack Dale Weaver

Call Number

OH1516

Date

1998

Description

Jack Weaver began his 35-year career at Rocky Flats in 1961, doing outdoor physical labor and then quickly moving into chemical operations, where he advanced to foreman, and then shift manager, and then operations manager for building 771. He also worked in the Health and Safety Department. In this interview, Jack gives a narrative of his career, including descriptions of chemical processes

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Oral history interview with Jim Kelly, 2000

Call Number

OH1504

Date

2000

Description

This interview is a follow-up to a prior conversation recorded in 1998. Jim Kelly talks about current negotiations for benefits and compensation that would apply to retired or disabled Rocky Flats workers. He expresses concern over shoddy recordkeeping by plant management, which has hampered workers{u2019} ability to prove their involvement in contamination incidents. Kelly also addresses

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Oral history interview with Melinda Kassen, 2006

Call Number

OH1422-V

Date

2006

Description

Melinda Kassen discusses her involvement with Rocky Flats: 1. as an attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund challenging Rocky Flats' plans to incinerate waste and pushing Colorado standards for amounts of plutonium allowed in water and soil, 2. as a member of the Rocky Flats Monitoring Council, and, 3. as Counsel for Legislative and Environmental Affairs for Kaiser-Hill during the Rocky Flats

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Oral history interview with Louis J. Fasulo, 2013

Call Number

OH1921-V

Date

2013

Description

Lou Fasulo worked at Los Alamos for almost nine years beginning in 1943 and then was recruited to work at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in 1952 when the facility first opened up. He continued to work at Rocky Flats for thirty-one years, as a supervisor of parts inspection and later as the building superintendent for 91 Building. He discusses the centrality of the work done at Los Alamos

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Oral history interview with Jason Salzman, 1999

Call Number

OH1510

Date

1999

Description

Jason Salzman began working on the Greenpeace campaign against Rocky Flats in August 1989, shortly after the FBI raid and before the plant was closed for safety violations. As an activist, he used creative PR tactics to ensure that Rocky Flats{u2019} operations would not resume. In this interview, Jason talks about his background, the lead up to the Flats{u2019} shutdown, specific strategies

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Oral history interview with Jan Pilcher, 1997

Call Number

OH1508

Date

1997

Description

Jan Pilcher got involved with activism and organizing around Rocky Flats in the early 1970s. She helped create the booklet "Local Hazard, Global Threat," which framed citizens{u2019} concerns about Flats{u2019} operation as well as concerns about disarmament and contamination. In this interview, Jan talks about how she learned about Rocky Flats, the formative experiences that led to her pacifist

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Oral history interview with Mark A. Graf, 2005

Call Number

OH1378-V

Date

2005

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Oral history interview with Kenneth J. Freiberg, 2011

Call Number

OH1700-V

Date

2011

Description

Ken Freiberg discusses many aspects of his long and varied career at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, where he started in 1953 as a radiation monitor in Health Physics; then moved through other jobs that had increasing responsibilities, including heading the maintenance services division, and working with other nuclear sites; and continuing through the closure of Rocky Flats. He discusses

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Public lecture by LeRoy Moore, 2009

Call Number

OH1592

Date

2009

Description

In his talk, recorded at Naropa University, Dr. LeRoy Moore discusses the life history of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant from the point of view of his own political evolution, the history of the plant itself and of activism against the plant, and the issue of health and safety problems posed by the plant, its cleanup, and the current plans to have it operate as a wildlife refuge open

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Oral history interview with Harvey Nichols, 2005

Call Number

OH1372-V

Date

2005

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Oral history interview with Alice and Ron Brace, 2004

Call Number

OH1268-V

Date

2004

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Oral history interview with Ronald R. Cohen, 2015

Call Number

OH2031

Date

2015

Description

Dr. Cohen is a professor in the Colorado School of Mines' Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He contributed to the Rocky Flats Environmental Monitoring Council, presenting technical information to the group. In this interview, Cohen describes his involvement with Rocky Flats - dating back to 1986 - which includes characterizing the contamination on site and determining remediation

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Oral history interview with Dick Fox, 2004

Call Number

OH1317-V

Date

2004

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Oral history interview with Ed McNamara, 2004

Call Number

OH1209-V

Date

2004

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Oral history interview with Bruce D. Honeyman, 2015

Call Number

OH2032

Date

2015

Description

Dr. Honeyman is an Associate Vice President for Research at the Colorado School of Mines. In this interview he talks about his involvement with Rocky Flats, from about 1997 to 2002: providing Kaiser Hill with expert analysis of remediation efforts; his scientific research; and his roles on the Citizens Advisory Board (CAB) and Scientific Advisory Board. Honeyman compares Rocky Flats to other U

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