{"id":11172,"date":"2012-09-12T18:17:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T00:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=11172"},"modified":"2012-09-12T18:32:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T00:32:13","slug":"the-atlantic-a-september-11th-catastrophe-youve-probably-never-heard-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=11172","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantic | A September 11th Catastrophe You&#8217;ve Probably Never Heard About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 441px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2012\/09\/a-september-11th-catastrophe-youve-probably-never-heard-about\/261959\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/rockyflatsban.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">An interior view of the plutonium processing facility at Rocky Flats. (Library of Congress)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;On September 11, 1957, 55 years ago tomorrow, a national catastrophe was unfolding, one you likely have never heard about before. At the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility near Denver, inside the plutonium processing building, a fire had started in an area designed to be fireproof. Soon it was roaring over, through, and around the carefully constricted plutonium as one Cold-War-era safety feature after another failed. The roof of the building, the building itself, were threatened. And plumes of radioactive smoke went straight up into Colorado&#8217;s late summer night air. High into the air, if you believe the witnesses&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Citizens cannot afford to be complacent; they must be educated and aware of nuclear decisions that may affect their health and their properties. Local citizens must be part of the decision-making process regarding existing and potential new nuclear facilities. And we must continue to press for ways to hold government and corporations accountable for protecting public health and the environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview with Kristen Iversen, author of\u00a0 <em>Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats<\/em>, at the Atlantic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2012\/09\/a-september-11th-catastrophe-youve-probably-never-heard-about\/261959\/\">A September 11th Catastrophe You&#8217;ve Probably Never Heard About &#8211; Andrew Cohen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;On September 11, 1957, 55 years ago tomorrow, a national catastrophe was unfolding, one you likely have never heard about before. At the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility near Denver, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":11177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[579,252,226,159],"class_list":["post-11172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-hazardous-waste","tag-nuclear-energy","tag-plutonium","tag-rocky-flats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11172"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11187,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11172\/revisions\/11187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}