Worker holding plutonium "button" in glove box Precision plutonium foundry mold, 1959 Room damaged by 1969 Rocky Flats Fire Control panel, Critical Mass Laboratory, 1970 The Rocky Flats Plant was a U.S. manufacturing complex that produced nuclear weapons parts in the western United States, near Denver, Colorado.[2] The facility's primary mission was the fabrication of plutonium pits,[3] which were
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