[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, GLOBAL: "US to clean up Spanish radioactive site 49 years after plane crash"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

US to clean up Spanish radioactive site 49 years after plane crash
A B-52 carrying four hydrogen bombs crashed in Palomares in 1966 but now the contaminated earth will be shipped to America

 
by Stephen Burgen 
Guardian
October 19, 2015 
	

Nearly 50 years after a US air force B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashed in Palomares in south-east Spain, Washington has finally agreed to clean up the radioactive contamination that resulted from the crash.

The US secretary of state, John Kerry, and the Spanish foreign minister, José Manuel García-Margallo, signed an agreement in Madrid on Monday to clean up the site and “store the contaminated earth at a suitable location in the United States”.

It is thought the radioactive material will be shipped to an area of Nevada already contaminated from nuclear bomb tests carried out in the 1950s.




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For the entire article, see
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/19/us-to-clean-up-spanish-radioactive-site-49-years-after-palomares-plane-crash

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Lenny Siegel
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