2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 7 Nov 2007 05:44:01 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Cold War nuke accidents in Europe
 
Europe site of several nuke accidents during Cold War


Bryan Mitchell
Stars and Stripes Europe edition
November 7, 2007

The U.S. government has paid approximately $3 million over the past 10 years to fund research into radioactive contamination of a Spanish village following a deadly 1966 U.S. nuclear weapons accident.

The U.S. Department of Energy recently extended the funding for two years. A plan to address the issue was established in 1997 after Spanish officials discovered a year earlier that 558 acres around the village of Palomares had radioactive contamination five times worse than initially estimated, according to Jonathan Shrader, a department spokesman.

The Palomares nuclear incident is one of the most high-profile accidents involving American nuclear weapons outside the U.S., according to nuclear weapons experts.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=50096

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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