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Two
ditches containing radioactive material dug 42 years ago
during the clean-up operation after two US air force planes
collided midair spilling their nuclear payloads over southern
Spain, have been found, according to the government-run
environmental studies agency Ciemat.
One bomb
fell in Palomares, Almerķa and the other one in the sea.
The US
army said then that it had cleaned up the sites, claiming to
have shipped 1.6 million tons of radioactive soil to the US.
Even though it is still too early to know what kind of toxic
waste lies in these trenches. Ciemat believes that much of
the metallic material contains radioactive plutonium, which
has a half-life of thousands of years. There is no place in
Spain that nuclear waste can be stored. Spanish authorities
have turned to the US to transport and store the toxic waste. |
