[JPKab]

I live west of Rocky Flats. I actually walked onto the now refuge that surrounds the plant tonight and took photos of the fires in the distance.

It should be noted that the contaminated areas of Rocky flats are extremely secure and buried under massively overbuilt layers of concrete containments. The EPA milked the site for super fund money for probably a decade longer than it needed to for the cleanup. If you're wondering how I know this it's because I have several neighbors who used to work at the plant and then worked on the EPA-led cleanup when it was a super fund site.

[monocasa]

The remediation started in 1997, and ended in 2006, so I'm not sure how it could have lasted an extra decade given that it didn't last an entire decade total. And that was using only $7B of the original estimate of $35B.

[JPKab]

There's not an increased rate of cancer around the area. People have lived in this area for a long time. My neighborhood is upwind not downwind. There's no increased cancer cluster anywhere downwind of the site.

The data should be driving these decisions instead of the paranoia of anti-nuke idiots.