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| Nuclear Accident Cleanup To Restart 40 Years Later... |
| 2006-10-08 |
| Spain, U.S. Agree to Radioactivity Cleanup 40 Years After Atomic Accident MADRID, Spain — Spain and the United States have reached an agreement to clean up radioactivity in the Spanish farming village of Palomares, on Spain's southeast tip, 40 years after two U.S atomic bombs fell in the area after a midair collision, news reports said on Sunday. The agreement to clean the area was reached at a meeting mid-September between the U.S. Department of Energy and Spain's CIEMAT, the national Center for Energy and Environment Investigation, leading Madrid daily El Pais reported. The accident took place on the morning of Jan. 17, 1966, when a B-52 bomber collided with a flying tanker while refueling over Palomeras and released all four of its hydrogen bombs in the ensuing explosion. It is unlikely - damned unlikely - that there is any actual threat to life or limb at Palormares. What is very likely is that somebody decided this was a good stick to poke us with, and in the interest of not starting any MORE sh*t, we're rolling over and taking it. Mike |
| Posted by:Mike Kozlowski |
| #5 the 4 ft diameter cabbages should be a warning. Sounds like a scam for $ |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-10-08 19:38 |
| #4 We should pay the extra bucks to ship in all of our own crew and not create a single extra job for the locals. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-10-08 19:34 |
| #3 The village is still there, they seem to still be a farming village, ergo I surmise that there's bugger all to cleanup. |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2006-10-08 19:33 |
| #2 Just the usual Scamming for Big Bux gig. It was cleaned up and they were paid for the imagined "losses" back when it happened. There's a bull market in Golden Guilt and State Dept Stupidity, so they're looking for a return engagement. Just the usual EU-Thimk™. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-10-08 16:35 |
| #1 "In 2001 CIEMAT detected higher levels of plutonium, uranium and americium than average over 24 acres of Palomares." Higher than average -- not exactly alarming. Over 24 acres -- not much of a clean-up as things go. |
| Posted by: Omogum Throns1317 2006-10-08 15:54 |