Rocky Flats: A Call to Guardianship13 Apr
Rocky Flats: A Call to Guardianship
Nuclear Guardianship combines art, science and remembrance to address the seemingly intractable human-caused problem of nuclear contamination with insight and creativity. By building commitment and community, the project will explore and encourage implementation of Nuclear Guardianship at the site of the defunct Rocky Flats nuclear bomb plant, where for 37 years the fissile plutonium pits for all warheads in the U.S. nuclear arsenal were produced. Tiny plutonium particles remaining in the soil make the site a hazard essentially forever. Nuclear Guardianship is a powerful manifestation of a cultural shift away from secrecy and denial towards ecological responsibility. It will provide a model for long-term environmental caretaking at other radioactively contaminated sites. But first we must challenge the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service plan to manage most of the Rocky Flats site as a wildlife refuge open for public recreation. Nuclear Guardianship is a commitment for the millennia — a pledge to our children’s children’s…children.
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The word-term: guardian means an act of ‘protecting’ which certainly did not happen while werkors went along head-strong for support of the “hawks” who continue to make war as though “not-so-depleted Uranium (NSDU-238) was not radiologic-Contamination”; as though thermo-Nuclears (49 on 24/7 alert since installation) was not an offensive measure; as though NPP’s (nuclear power plants) protect the populations from downwind(s) radionuclides-Releases, from these steam plants that must HOLD radionuclides one foot to 150-miles and that must–altho the people in communities know this– maintain the people don’t have “radiation-Measuring devices” yet! Meanwhile, pu-240 from those pits making adversities of killing civilians, is not going away for another 240,000 years, while any particles retriculating into soils from that ‘time-Era’ is disparagement from jobs of “clean-UPs: impartial”.
The job is not replete and the defense from “munitions-Factories” is not started.
Guardianship, yes, when people’s eyes and ears relate to one another how destitute the culture’s indemnities are? Yes. This is not yet a pluralistic-Society because radiologic “truths” are being withheld for defense that is not structured as protection! Yet.
Peace is not a radionuclides Park…