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Jan and Jennie Hrdlicka crank pedals up to the new Indiana Street bridge entrance to Rocky Flats with a sense of history that’s well above average.

They know the wildlife refuge they are about to enter made atomic bomb parts until 1989, if not all the details of how Rocky Flats as a weapons plant produced 70,000 plutonium explosives, each holding the power of the Hiroshima inferno.

They know that a mile to the west, just over that berm topped by stunning Flatirons views, an EPA Superfund site had to dismantle rooms whose radioactivity registered to infinity, and ship out a million barrels of flammable toxic goo.

They know plutonium drifted east from the site for decades, borne on 100 mph storm gusts and plumes from spontaneous radioactive combustion in the bomb

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