Monday, October 19, 2015

US agrees to clean up radioactive Spanish site

Nearly 50 years after the original accident, the U.S. has reached an agreement to clean up a Spanish island where four American nuclear bombs fell - but did not detonate.

In 1966, two planes collided over Palomares, and two of the four American atomic bombs on board broke apart, scattering highly radioactive plutonium over a 200-hectare (490-acre) area.

Our U.S. corrspondent Priscilla Huff reports:

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