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ROTSHARP, mirror-ape ogre @rotsharp7/26/2023, 5:44 AM

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Interurban Era @InterurbanEra7/26/2023, 4:15 AM

"Working in Infinity" the most ☢️radioactive☢️, most gripping article I've ever read.

Mark Obmascik wrote this incredible story about both the crew who worked assembling plutonium components in extraordinarily explosive, radioactive, and corrosive conditions, and the crew tasked to clean up the site. This was done at the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado. Some places were so radioactive decades afterward that you were working in Infinity, where radioactivity could not be measured (!)

Grab something to drink, and read in suspenseful horror:

Rocky Flats: The price of peace
By Mark Obmascik
Denver Post Staff Writer

June 25, 2000

https://extras.denverpost.com/news/news0625a.htm

Thanks to @atomicthumbs for helping me relocate the article after I read it years ago.

#The Cohost Global Feed #Denver #Colorado #Rocky Flats #nuclear #AEC #military history #radioactive #suspense

ROTSHARP, mirror-ape ogre @rotsharp7/26/2023, 5:44 AM

"The government lost the dead man's brain before an autopsy could check for radiation."

one of the sentences i have ever seen

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@darryl @darryl7/26/2023, 12:58 PM

“The government lost the dead man's brain before an autopsy could check for radiation” is not a sentence I was expecting to read during breakfast this morning.

What a story. Thanks for sharing.

Vernon @pdxgoose7/27/2023, 5:33 AM

great story, thanks for sharing! looks like they got at least some of the land cleaned up to open up a wildlife refuge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Flats_National_Wildlife_Refuge

Lithobates Catesbeianus @CypressPunk11/7/2023, 5:52 PM

This is the article that led me to conceive of radioactive contamination like a tangible "evil" in that it cannot be reasoned with, fought, or otherwise really dealt with. At best you can bury it in concrete or just abandon the places it has touched. and hope thats good enough when it probably isnt.

Lupi @lupi11/7/2023, 9:42 PM

20 bucks an hour when gas was only a dollar a gallon, wow, that seems a good bit (understandable and justified for the work they were doing)

Lupi @lupi11/8/2023, 7:30 AM

oh boy and i thought the Los Alamos photo incident (along with their well-established record of fuckery) was bad

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