Spain, US in new accord on nuclear accident site cleanup

Washington and Madrid have reached a new agreement in principle for the United States to clean up land contaminated by radiation from undetonated nuclear bombs that accidentally fell on a site in southern Spain in 1966, a joint statement said Monday.

The two sides "intend to negotiate a binding agreement for a cooperative effort to conduct further remediation of the Palomares site and arrange for disposal of the contaminated soil at an appropriate site in the United States," the statement said.

Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said both sides wanted the cleanup to start soon but gave no further details on the agreement.

"The desire is to do it now, as soon as possible, and that Palomares returns to the normality that it had before 1966," he told a joint news conference in Madrid with US Secretary of State John Kerry.

On January 17, 1966, a US B-52 bomber carrying four nuclear bombs collided with a tanker plane during mid-air refuelling over the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain, killing seven of 11 crew members.....http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/89650-151020-spain-us-in-new-accord-on-nuclear-accident-site-cleanup
20/10/15
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