Spain: Kerry signs new deal on Palomares nuclear clean-up plan

US Secretary of State John Kerry met with Spanish Foreign Minister, Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, Monday in Madrid to discuss the 'clean-up' operation of the most radioactive town in Western Europe. Kerry described the Palomares incident as a "military accident involving the collision of two US aircrafts" which happened back in 1966. Kerry went on to say that "Over the past 50 years we have worked together to secure the area, to remove contaminated soil and to decontaminate land and to ensure public health and safety of the people". On January the 17th 1966 an American B-52G bomber collided with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refueling over the Mediterranean Sea. The crash resulted in the contamination of a 2-square-kilometer (490-acre) (0.78 square mile) area by plutonium.