Spain, US reach accord to clean up nuclear accident site

Spain, US reach accord to clean up nuclear accident site, Washington and Madrid accept accomplished a new acceding in assumption for the United States to apple-pie up acreage attenuated by radiation from undetonated nuclear bombs that accidentally fell on a website in Spain in 1966, a collective account said Monday.

The two abandon "intend to accommodate a bounden acceding for a accommodating accomplishment to conduct added remediation of the Palomares website and align for auctioning of the attenuated clay at an adapted website in the United States," the account said.

On January 17, 1966, a US B-52 adviser accustomed four nuclear bombs collided with a tanker even during mid-air refuelling off the bank of Spain, and two thermonuclear bombs fell abreast Palomares.

Although they did not denotate, they bankrupt up, overextension seven pounds of plutonium over a 200 hectare (490 acre) area.

Under an beforehand accordance that concluded in 2010, Washington paid 314,000 euros ($350,000) a year for tests for contagion in the arena as able-bodied as approved claret tests for added than 1,000 Palomares residents.
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