[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, GLOBAL: "Spain asks U.S. to begin cleanup of nuclear accident site:

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Spain asks U.S. to begin cleanup of nuclear accident site

By CIARÁN GILES
Associated Press
March 6, 2023


Madrid — Spain said Monday it has asked the United States to begin procedures to remove soil contaminated with radioactivity after a mid-air collision dumped four U.S. hydrogen bombs near a southern Spanish village nearly 60 years ago.

None of the bombs had exploded, but the plutonium-filled detonators on two went off, spreading several kilograms (pounds) of highly radioactive plutonium 239 across the landscape around Palomares.

The Foreign Ministry said there would be no more details given on the petition until there is an official reply from the U.S.

Spain and the U.S. signed a statement of intent in 2015 to negotiate a binding agreement to further restore and clear up the Palomares site and arrange for the disposal of the contaminated soil at an appropriate site in the U.S. But for several reasons no agreement was ever signed.

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For the entire article, see
https://apnews.com/article/spain-us-b52-hydrogen-bomb-plutonium-accident-palomares-dd5e024d2cd5247a1dba0195600b188d

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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