Rocky Flats is already threatened with closure later this year because of the lack of storage space for plutonium wastes.
Thus, finding a permanent home for plutonium wastes became a pressing matter.
Under the Administration's proposal, the seven states, all of which have major bomb plants, would share in accepting plutonium waste from Rocky Flats.
We obtain our vital plutonium, but we now have a highly radioactive plutonium waste which will be dangerous for thousands of years to come.
Mankind's food is being polluted at a time when not enough is known about plutonium waste.
The Holme report also says management lapses led to the outdoor storage of 5,200 barrels of liquid plutonium wastes, a practice that was unauthorized.
Disposal of plutonium waste from nuclear power plants and dismantled nuclear weapons built during the Cold War is a nuclear-proliferation and environmental concern.
To bury it away where no one would ever find it, as though it were asdangerous as a cask of plutonium waste.
The plutonium waste is generated at the Rocky Flats Plant, near Denver, which makes plutonium triggers for nuclear bombs.
Of all the plant's difficulties, though, none is more threatening to Rocky Flats operations, or trickier for political leaders to solve, than the limit on plutonium waste.