The Nation - News from Aug. 2, 1989
A federal grand jury has been impaneled to investigate whether criminal activity occurred at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Colorado. U.S. District Judge Sherman Finesilver, who ordered the investigation at the request of Acting Assistant Atty. Gen. John C. Keene, said that the 23-member panel would serve for 18 months and that the term could be extended another 18 months. Colorado has two grand juries that meet regularly to handle federal cases, but Finesilver said the range of accusations against the plant merited a special panel. The plant 16 miles northwest of Denver was raided June 6 by 75 FBI agents and investigators from the Environmental Protection Agency. Rocky Flats, which manufactures plutonium triggers for nuclear weapons, is operated by Rockwell International under a contract with the Department of Energy.
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