[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, GLOBAL: "Spain says U.S. to help in nuclear clean-up"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Spain says US to help in nuclear clean-up

By HAROLD HECKLE
Associated Press
February 3, 2012

MADRID (AP) - Spain said Friday it had received guarantees that the  
United States will help clean up land contaminated with radioactivity  
after a mid-air collision in 1966 dumped four U.S. hydrogen bombs in  
the country's south.

Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said he will discuss the  
clean-up with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the  
Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday.

U.S. Embassy spokesman Jeffrey Galvin said it was premature to say a  
deal had been struck, but the clean up had been a subject on the  
agenda at recent bilateral meetings.

"There's definitely good will and Secretary Clinton did say we're  
taking this seriously and we're aware how sensitive it is for  
Spaniards," Galvin said.

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