Summary

Description Worker holding a plutonium button.jpg	English: Rocky Flats Plant View of a worker holding a plutonium button . Plutonium, a man-made substance, was rare. scraps resulting from production and plutonium recovered from retired nuclear weapons were reprocessed into valuable pure-plutonium metal.
Date	19 September 1973
Source	memory.loc.gov
Author	Federal government of the United States
Permission ( Reusing this file )	Public domain Public domain false false This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government , such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information. Creator: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Historic American Engineering Record . Survey number HAER CO-83-31 Source: U.S. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, "Built in America" Collection . Copyright: "The original measured drawings and most of the photographs and data pages in HABS/HAER/HALS were created for the U.S. Government and are considered to be in the public domain."

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• 2008-04-28 00:15 Tillman 412×508× (123751 bytes) VIEW OF A WORKER HOLDING A PLUTONIUM 'BUTTON.' PLUTONIUM, A MAN-MADE SUBSTANCE, WAS RARE. SCRAPS RESULTING FROM PRODUCTION AND PLUTONIUM RECOVERED FROM RETIRED NUCLEAR WEAPONS WERE REPROCESSED INTO VALUABLE PURE-PLUTONIUM METAL (9/19/73). Original cropped