Rocky Flats Historical Public Exposures Studies

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INTRODUCTION

The Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site is owned by the U.S. Department of Energy

(DOE) and is currently operated by the Kaiser-Hill Company. For most of its history, the site was

called the Rocky Flats Plant (RFP) and was operated by Dow Chemical Company as a nuclear

weapons’ production, research and development facility. The RFP is located on 2650 ha (6500

acres) of Federal property about 8–10 km (5–6 mi) from the cities of Arvada, Westminster, and

Broomfield, and about 26 km (16 mi) northwest of downtown Denver. Since 1975 the original 156-ha

(385-acre) main production area has been surrounded by a large buffer zone that now defines the

RFP boundary.