Building A Community In Colorado’s Nuclear Shadow

By Mark Ackerman and Rick Sallinger
ARVADA, Colo. (CBS4)– Although Rocky Flats was dismantled and cleaned up more than a decade ago, the controversy surrounding the former nuclear weapons facility has not gone away.
From 1952 to 1989 radioactive plutonium was used at Rocky Flats to create triggers for hydrogen bombs.
1952-1989: Rocky Flats Workers Produce Plutonium Triggers for Hydrogen Bombs (credit: CBS)
Now houses, a school and a whole community called Candelas, is under construction al