Nuke-O-Rado Part 1: The Manhattan Project and the Nuclear Arms Race

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Western Fringe

Heidi Beedle

16 episodes

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Western Fringe is a podcast about the weird history of Colorado. westernfringe@protonmail.com

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Nuke-O-Rado Part 1: The Manhattan Project and the Nuclear Arms Race

Western Fringe

40 minutes 8 seconds

3 years ago

Nuke-O-Rado Part 1: The Manhattan Project and the Nuclear Arms Race

In this episode we take a look Colorado's role in the Manhattan Project with the Uranium mining operations in Uravan and the Uranium refinery in Grand Junction. After World War II, Colorado was chosen as the site for Dow Chemical's plutonium manufacturing plant, Rocky Flats, which had it's first series of accidents in 1957.

Sources:
Atomic Heritage Foundation
Department of Energy
Rocky Flats Timeline by Pat Buffer
Demon Core Incident
Many of the documents I will be citing in this series came from the Office of Legacy Management's website, and it appears those .pdfs aren't available anymore, LOL. If you want to take a look at the source documents feel free to email westernfringe@protonmail.com