[CPEO-MEF] Cold War nuke accidents in Europe

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

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
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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