Rocky Flats Plant Photos

paul39 · May 24, 2015

Lathefan's photo of the machine shop of Rocky Flats got me looking. I found this:

Search Results: "rocky flats plant" - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress)

There are more photos of Monarch lathes along with a lot of interesting stuff from inside the plant with captions.

Here is some history of the plant:

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=rocky+flats+fire

Paul

lathefan · May 24, 2015

...and here it is now...all gone...

jim rozen · May 25, 2015

Amazing photos. Including a couple basically entitled "What happens when
your glove box full of plutonium catches on fire."

Taken by guys wearing full body suits and proto-SCBA gear....

oldster · May 25, 2015

...and here it is now...all gone...

Well, not really. Earthquakes in Colorado? We finally figured out that they were being caused by the injection of the waste from the plant into deep wells (nobody will ever know the difference, right?)
I don't remember the exact dates all of this was happening, but when tremors starting happening in OK, I knew right away what was going on.
Same BS from the companies, backed by their paid geologists.

Lee (the saw guy)

lathefan · May 25, 2015

oldster said:
...and here it is now...all gone...

Well, not really. Earthquakes in Colorado? We finally figured out that they were being caused by the injection of the waste from the plant into deep wells (nobody will ever know the difference, right?)
I don't remember the exact dates all of this was happening, but when tremors starting happening in OK, I knew right away what was going on.
Same BS from the companies, backed by their paid geologists.

Lee (the saw guy)

...that was the Rocky Mountain Arsenal...east of Denver...Rocky Flats site is west of Denver between Golden and Boulder...I was still living at home when the earthquakes occurred...later linked to pumping waste into the wells at the Arsenal...I was nearly bounced out of my bed early one morning by one of those quakes...

4GSR · May 25, 2015

oldster said:
...and here it is now...all gone...

Well, not really. Earthquakes in Colorado? We finally figured out that they were being caused by the injection of the waste from the plant into deep wells (nobody will ever know the difference, right?)
I don't remember the exact dates all of this was happening, but when tremors starting happening in OK, I knew right away what was going on.
Same BS from the companies, backed by their paid geologists.

Lee (the saw guy)

This is probably where the oilfield was testing "fracking" in it's development back in the day....

paul39 · May 26, 2015

lathefan said:
...that was the Rocky Mountain Arsenal...east of Denver...Rocky Flats site is west of Denver between Golden and Boulder...I was still living at home when the earthquakes occurred...later linked to pumping waste into the wells at the Arsenal...I was nearly bounced out of my bed early one morning by one of those quakes...

Article in the New Yorker about earthquakes & deep injection wells:

The Arrival of Man-Made Earthquakes - The New Yorker

Paul

lathefan · May 26, 2015

paul39 said:
Article in the New Yorker about earthquakes & deep injection wells:

The Arrival of Man-Made Earthquakes - The New Yorker

Paul

The first case of earthquakes caused by fluid injection came in the nineteen-sixties. Engineers at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, a chemical-weapons manufacturing center near Commerce City, Colorado, disposed of waste fluids by injecting them down a twelve-thousand-foot well. More than a thousand earthquakes resulted, several of magnitudes close to 5.0. “Unintentionally, it was a great experiment,” Justin Rubinstein, who researches induced seismicity for the U.S.G.S., told me.

...I have to wonder about it being "unintentional"...

adh2000 · Jun 10, 2018

I have a Monarch 10ee that came from Rocky Flats, machine number 059:

Still has the Rocky Flats asset tags on it:

Going through the photos you linked to I found my lathe! Building 881, machine number 059. Lathe's manufacture date is 1966, photo was taken in 1970 before Rockwell repainted it blue:

Thanks for posting that link. Pretty cool to find my machine in its original habitat.

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Yan Wo · Jun 11, 2018

adh2000 said:
I have a Monarch 10ee that came from Rocky Flats, machine number 059: ...

Very cool to have that photo!

And I bet the glow makes if easy to find in the dark.

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