America helps Spain clean up contaminated areas

The US announced that it would send a team of experts to help Spain with the issue of purifying the area of ​​radioactive contaminated soil by a nuclear bomb in 1966.

One of the two bombs exploded making a plutonium rain.

At the request of the Spanish government, a technical team from the US Department of Energy will visit Palomares town to assist local colleagues to clean up the area.

Meanwhile, at the ongoing Security Conference in Germany, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo also raised the issue with his US counterpart Hillary Clinton. On behalf of the US government, Clinton affirmed that the country would "be determined" to resolve the issue.

In January 1966, a US B52 bomber collided with an aircraft carrying KC135 oil at an altitude of 9,000 meters above the town of Palomares. The collision caused both aircraft to explode.

At the time of the accident, the B52 was carrying four hydrogen bombs. As a result, two of the four bombs were broken into pieces and created a plutonium rain.

A few weeks after the accident, the town of Palomares became desolate. Some people died due to severe radiation poisoning, and the rest of the population was ordered to evacuate, the area where the accident was blocked. Then this place became a dead land.