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The Rocky Flats Plant, a former U.S. nuclear weapons production facility located about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Denver, caused radioactive (primarily plutonium, americium, and uranium) contamination within and outside its boundaries. [ 1] The contamination primarily resulted from two major plutonium fires in 1957 and 1969 (plutonium is ...
List of Superfund sites in Colorado. Coordinates: 38.9972°N 105.5478°W. This is a list of Superfund sites in the U.S. State of Colorado designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law authorized the United States Environmental Protection ...
NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex (January 20, 1965) [ 1]: 14. The Cheyenne Mountain Complex is a United States Space Force installation and defensive bunker located in unincorporated El Paso County, Colorado, next to the city of Colorado Springs, [ 2] at the Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station, [ a] which hosts the activities of several tenant ...
The high plains of Colorado may be considered a part of the midwestern United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. Colorado is the eighth most extensive and 21st most populous U.S. state.
Nagasaki, Japan. 32°46′25″N 129°51′48″E / . 32.77372°N 129.86325°E. / 32.77372; 129.86325 ( Nagasaki, Japan) The second target of nuclear weapons, Nagasaki was a city of 240,000 swelled to 263,000 on the day of the strike, chosen when the primary target, Kokura, was found clouded over.
Supervised injection site. Supervised injection sites ( SIS) [ 1][ 2][ 3] or drug consumption rooms ( DCRs) are a health and social response to drug-related problems. They are fixed or mobile spaces where people who use drugs are provided with sterile drug use equipment and can use illicit drugs under the supervision of trained staff.
ADX Florence is a 37-acre (15 ha) complex located at 5880 Highway 67, in an unincorporated area, [ 21] with a Florence, Colorado, postal address. It is located about 100 miles (160 km) south of Denver and 40 miles (64 km) south of Colorado Springs. [ 22] It is part of the Federal Correctional Complex, Florence (FCC Florence) which consists of ...
The Lindenmeier site is a stratified multi-component archaeological site most famous for its Folsom component. The former Lindenmeier Ranch is in the Soapstone Prairie Natural Area, in northeastern Larimer County, Colorado, United States. The site contains the most extensive Folsom culture campsite yet found with calibrated radiocarbon dates of ...