Spain and US reach agreement over nuclear accident

Spain and the US have reached an agreement to clean up radioactivity in the Spanish farming village of Palomares, on Spain’s south-east tip, 40 years after two US atomic bombs fell in the area after a midair collision.

The agreement to clean the area was reached at a meeting mid-September between the US Department of Energy and Spain’s CIEMAT, the national Centre for Energy and Environment Investigation, leading Madrid daily El Pais reported.