RULISON, Colo. (CBS4) - Some people might not remember Sept. 10, 1969, but a handful of protesters do. They found themselves on top of a nuclear detonation in Rulison, Colorado, and say they won't ...

Federal and state agencies plan to apply some of the lessons learned from Project Rulison as they try to decide how close to another underground nuclear test site that natural gas development should ...

A Texas-based exploration company has rights to drill for natural gas near Project Rulison, the site of an underground nuclear test explosion three decades ago. Though the explosion on Sept. 10, 1969, ...

Project Rulison was the second experiment aimed at natural gas development, having been preceded by a 1967 blast in New Mexico. A third, Project Rio Blanco, occurred in 1973 in Rio Blanco County and ...

Fifty years ago, scientists detonated a nuclear bomb underground with Project Rulison, an effort designed to unlock natural gas trapped in stubborn shale. The goal sounds familiar: launch an economic ...

A retrospective review of the first atomic test explosion in Colorado on Sept. 10, 1969 will be held on the 50th anniversary day, 6 p.m., Sept. 10, 2019 at the Grand Valley Recreation Center at ...

A bit of oft-forgotten history was commemorated earlier this week in the small Western Colorado town of Battlement Mesa. Many residents of the Western Slope are either too young or didn’t reside in ...

In the case of Project Rulison, to quote a government statement issued shortly after the blast, "the contaminants of concern for the subsurface of the Rulison Site are expected to include radioactive ...

When I arrived in Aspen in 1982, it did not take me long to discover that most valley residents headed for the desert as soon as the lifts closed. Hiking. Biking. Motorcycles. Boating on the Colorado ...