Two nuclear bombs exploded in 1966 after US aircraft involved in mid-air collision over Palomares in Almería
A British company has defended its plans to develop a resort in south-eastafter environmental groups claimed the area could be contaminated with radioactivity from nuclear bombs that fell after a plane crash in the 1960s.
British-owned Bahía de Almanzora plans to build 1,600 homes, a hotel and a sports complex about a mile from the contaminated zone in Palomares, which has been fenced off for the past 56 years. The Almanzora proposal makes no mention of the 1966 incident or the contamination. Fraser Prynne, development director for Bahía de Almanzora, said the contaminated land was “nowhere near the development” and that “this stuff about particles flying about is nonsense”.
Fifty-six years later, 103 hectares remain fenced off and neither the Spanish nor US governments have complied with“We’re as keen as anyone to see the area cleaned up,” Prynne said. “It’s American plutonium but there’s no nuclear cemetery in Spain and no one else wants it.”
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