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Nuclear Energy

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    25th Anniversary of Chernobyl: Protesters voice nuclear concerns at State Capitol

    Wes McKinley.​Earlier this week, protesters marked the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster with a Capitol steps protest. Among the speakers: Wes McKinley, a state rep and onetime foreman of the Rocky Flats grand jury, which tops Alan Prendergast's list of Colorado's greatest whistleblow ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2011

    Radiation from Japanese nuclear paint found in Colorado: Health dept. says no need to panic

    ​Last week, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment tried to counter media-fueled fears about radiation from the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan creating health risks here. Today, that job just got more difficult. The CDPHE confirms that "minuscule" amounts of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Japanese radiation worries in U.S.: Health dept. tries to calm fears as media stokes them

    ​This morning, Peter Boyles spent part of his KHOW morning show wondering if we should be taking potassium iodide to protect ourselves against radiation from the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. And at this writing, the main story on the CBS4 home page asks, "Could Japan's Radi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2011

    Pueblo nuclear power plant proposal hearings against backdrop of Japanese explosions

    ​Timing is everything. With gas prices going up, up, up due to the chaos in North Africa last month, suddenly a nuclear power plant started looking good to Pueblo County, where the commissioners are considering a proposal to make that county one of the spots in the country vying for a new nuke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    Uranium miners in Colorado defend their livelihood in (of all places) The New Yorker

    ​When a national magazine starts its examination of southwestern Colorado "uranium widows" with a glimpse of a woman drilling for ore while clad only in "sandals, denim shorts, and a bra," I brace myself for the worst -- another condescending article about the state's tragic history on the fro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: Escape from Yucca Mountain

    A billion here, a billion there -- pretty soon we're talking real money. To be somewhat precise, $13.5 billion, which is what the federal government has spent in the more than two decades that it's proposed storing nuclear waste in an area known as Yucca Mountain, a volcanic ridge fewer than a hu ... More >>

  • News

    September 18, 2008

    With help from the feds, a Denver scientist helps Second Life go nuclear

    A billion here, a billion there -- pretty soon we're talking real money. To be somewhat precise, $13.5 billion, which is what the federal government has spent in the more than two decades that it's proposed storing nuclear waste in an area known as Yucca Mountain, a volcanic ridge fewer than a hu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2008

    Memories of Colorado’s atomic age

    A billion here, a billion there -- pretty soon we're talking real money. To be somewhat precise, $13.5 billion, which is what the federal government has spent in the more than two decades that it's proposed storing nuclear waste in an area known as Yucca Mountain, a volcanic ridge fewer than a hu ... More >>

  • Music

    March 16, 2006

    Mudhoney

    Under a Billion Suns (Sub Pop)

  • News

    July 27, 2000

    This Place Is a Dump!

    Rocky Flats was designed to produce plutonium triggers for nuclear bombs. But what it really produced was waste -- lots of hazardous waste.

  • News

    July 20, 2000

    Bombs Away!

    The government built a nuclear-weapons plant sixteen miles upwind of Denver. But decades passed before the public got wind of what was happening there.

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