The Work Isn't Finished.

Rocky Flats closed decades ago, but important questions about recognition, health, research and support remain.

Rocky Flats Downwinders works to ensure that people who lived, worked or went to school near Rocky Flats are recognized, heard, studied and supported.

Rocky Flats Downwinders Deserve Recognition.

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act was created to recognize and compensate certain people affected by the nation's nuclear weapons program.

But people who lived in communities surrounding Rocky Flats have historically been left out.

For years, Rocky Flats Downwinders has advocated for recognition of people who lived near the nuclear weapons plant and for their inclusion in federal radiation-exposure legislation. That work continues today.

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