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00:00It's something that we should be talking about.
00:13There should be signage.
00:15There should be education for people moving in the area so they know this was previously
00:20this plant, and this is what occurred here, and it's part of our history in the U.S.
00:24It's part of our history in Colorado.
00:29People do not know, you know?
00:32People do not know.
00:33Why would you know?
00:34If they don't teach you about it, there's no signage, why would it be like, poof, you're
00:37born with this knowledge about it?
00:42The Rocky Flats plant makes plutonium parts for nuclear weapons.
00:46Last May 11th, two buildings were gutted by fire.
00:49One of the nation's key atomic bomb plants may be endangering the people of Denver, Colorado.
00:54This is the most polluted nuclear weapons plant in America.
00:57Wastes burned, dumped into landfills, discharged into screens.
01:02Some of the highest levels of radioactive plutonium in the world.
01:05When is enough enough?
01:06We have been lied to enough.
01:07There are almost 10,000 protesters.
01:08Thousands of anti-nuclear protesters.
01:09An extraordinary story is unfolding at this top secret installation.
01:10FBI.
01:11FBI.
01:12FBI.
01:13FBI agents are at the Flats right now investigating the possibility that Rocky Flats covered up
01:24potentially deadly pollution and then lied about it.
01:38They made it into a wildlife refuge and say that, oh, come on and ride your bicycle and
01:45take a picnic lunch.
01:48That's wrong.
01:49That place should never, ever be inhabited by human beings.
01:59They didn't bother to look into the future and see what's going to happen to the people
02:06coming home when they forget about Rocky Flats.