directions to golden colorado Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/directions-to-golden-colorado Sat, 27 May 2017 15:09:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Golden and Boulder Colorado Map http://travelsfinders.com/golden-boulder-colorado-map.html http://travelsfinders.com/golden-boulder-colorado-map.html#respond Sat, 27 May 2017 15:04:51 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=240435 Rocky Flats Environmental Test Site, between Golden and Boulder This innocuously-named facility located 21 miles northwest of Denver is a former nuclear weapons fabrication site and a storage facility for over 12 tons of Plutonium-239, over 6.5 tons of uranium-235, and over 160 tons of depleted uranium. It is also the site of numerous cases of unauthorized dumping of radioactive materials that eventually resulted in a FBI raid. In other words, this was Uncle Sam’s atomic landfill site. But at least efforts are now being made to clean up the mess. Rocky Flats was opened in 1952 to manufacture the

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