[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, GLOBAL: Palomares (Spain) H-Bomb site

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Spain and U.S. Near Accord on Atomic Cleanup
By RAPHAEL MINDER
New York Times
April 5, 2011

PALOMARES, SPAIN - Forty-five years after narrowly avoiding nuclear  
obliteration in a U.S. Air Force accident, the villagers of  
Palomares, in southern Spain, have grown hopeful that the governments  
in Washington and Madrid will finally rid their land of contamination.

Their recent optimism has been fueled by Foreign Minister Trinidad  
Jiménez, who told the Spanish Senate in February, in what probably  
amounted to the clearest commitment by the Spanish government to  
date, that clearing Palomares was "a priority." Days later,  
Washington sent a team of experts to Palomares to help evaluate how  
to clean Western Europe’s most radioactive site.

After that American visit, Glenn S. Podonsky, the chief health,  
safety and security officer in the U.S. Department of Energy, said,  
"The two governments are exploring the best options in dealing with  
the issue of the contaminated soil."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/europe/06iht-spain06.html

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Lenny Siegel
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