The Nation : Details of A-Arms Plant Probe to Be Told

The Justice Department said that it would make public today voluminous details of allegations that prompted the federal criminal probe at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant near Denver. Deputy Associate Atty. Gen. Margaret Love told Reps. David E. Skaggs (D-Colo.) and Patricia Schroeder (D-Colo.) that 120 pages of affidavits that had supported search warrants would be unsealed by U.S. Atty. Michael Norton of Denver. The Justice Department has said that plant employees allegedly concealed contamination and illegally treated, stored and disposed of hazardous and radioactive waste. The facility, operated for the Department of Energy by Rockwell International, makes plutonium triggers for nuclear bombs.