A documentary film, the “Half-life of Memory — the hidden legacy of Rocky Flats, America’s Forgotten Atomic Bomb Factory,” opens in Denver soon.
As part of the Denver Film Festival, the film by Jeff Gipe whose father worked at the plant, has showings set between Nov. 2 and Nov. 8 at the Sie Film Center, on Colfax Avenue in Denver, according to promotional material emailed to Exchange Monitor and other media.
A link to the documentary’s three-minute trailer is available here. Information on the film festival can be found here.
The Department of Energy’s Rocky Flats plant in Colorado made plutonium pits for nuclear weapons for more than three decades, from 1952 through 1989. It was 1989 when the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Environmental Protection Agency raided Rocky Flats following an investigation into misconduct and mismanagement of the site. In 2005, DOE said the site was remediated and transferred oversight to its Office of Legacy Management.
Litigation over the adequacy of the Rocky Flats cleanup and part of the site’s suitability as a hiking trail continues in 2024.
