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Tortoise trying to get into the radioactive site at Palomares, Spain
Tortoise trying to get into the radioactive site at Palomares, Spain.
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The tortoise photograph featured above was taken on the outskirts of Palomares in South East Spain. It shows the tortoise trying to get back into a fenced-off, radioactive site created after a "Broken Arrow" accident which happened in 1966.
Broken Arrow is the term coined by the US for nuclear-weapon accidents which do not risk creating nuclear war. The Palomares incident is regarded by some as the worst of its type involving the accidental dropping of four nuclear bombs. Two of the bombs were damaged leading to chemical explosions (ie not atomic explosions) which spread large amounts of Plutonium around the nearby landscape. It certainly contaminated large areas, over several locations and considerable efforts, at great cost, were made in an effort to make the areas safe.
The nature of the radioactive materials indicate that serious contamination will remain for hundreds of thousands of years. We have visited the Palomares sites many times and have written three short, illustrated articles on the subject of Broken Arrows. If you would like to know more click here to go to the first page of our account.

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