I bought a home in Candelas knowing all about the rocky flats incident.
While the home builders are certainly not forthcoming on details of the incident, the site you linked to is packed with scientific inaccuracies and fear mongering.
I personally know workers who performed the cleanup, and also have reviewed health data which shows zero increase in cancer in the entire area for the 30 years since the last incident.
People like you are why I moved here. The houses are cheaper because of the reduced demand than they otherwise would be.
I'm on a phone, but later I will post a thorough debunking of the candelas glows site. People who don't understand the difference between alpha and beta particles, not plutonium vs uranium vs strontium have no business writing this stuff. It gives actual environmental contamination awareness campaigns a bad name.
Regardless of the specifics, people buying homes and living there should know the details. I don't own or run that site, but people should know the history of that area. It's a simple fact that groundwater and air contamination with radioactive substances occurred there. As you say, it's far more complicated than is or isn't. For me the risk and severity of the consequenced seemed to far outweigh saving some money. The wiki article has some more background : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_contamination_fr...
While the home builders are certainly not forthcoming on details of the incident, the site you linked to is packed with scientific inaccuracies and fear mongering.
I personally know workers who performed the cleanup, and also have reviewed health data which shows zero increase in cancer in the entire area for the 30 years since the last incident.
People like you are why I moved here. The houses are cheaper because of the reduced demand than they otherwise would be.
I'm on a phone, but later I will post a thorough debunking of the candelas glows site. People who don't understand the difference between alpha and beta particles, not plutonium vs uranium vs strontium have no business writing this stuff. It gives actual environmental contamination awareness campaigns a bad name.