Three of the damaged bombs were recovered near the Spanish village of Palomares, but it took 11 weeks for a massive Navy search effort to find the fourth on the seafloor. Today, the B-52 is the only jet in active service to run eight powerful Pratt & Whitney turbofan jet engines, ...
Of the four Mk28 type hydrogen bombs the B-52G carried,[2] three were found on land near the small fishing village of Palomares in the municipality of Cuevas del Almanzora, Almería, Spain. The non-nuclear explosives in two of the weapons detonated upon impact with the ground, resulting ...
In January 1966, 2 US military aircraft collided over the skies of Palomares (Almeria). One of them carried thermonuclear bombs, which released plutonium and other radioactive materials upon striking the ground. The most contaminated earth and plants were immediately removed. The Indalo Project was...
1966: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker off the coast of Spain, killing seven airmen and dropping four 70-kiloton nuclear bombs — three near the small fishing village of Palomares and one into the sea. The impact causes the non-nuclear explosives in two of the bombs to...
conscience" of the nuclear weapons program. The labs's legacy, Narath suggests without irony, is that by assuring bombs will explode reliably and with apocalyptic result, the level of dread has been raised high enough to preclude the use in anger of a single nuclear weapon in the last 50 ...
(decades to 100’s of years) Pu release from the hot particles. The Maralinga particles are models for hot particles released during subcritical nuclear incidents, and are also useful in nuclear forensics as proxies for those generated from dirty bombs8. Overall, these new results corroborate ...
In 1966, the nuclear fuel of two thermonuclear bombs was released over the Spanish region of Palomares, due to a B52 bomber accident during a refuelling op... E Chamizo,M García-León,HA Synal,... - 《Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research》 被引量: 23发表: 2006年 Monte ...
A true giant : It survived the bombs of the Second World War and enabled the construction of some of the world's most famous ships. Ahead of the opening of... As the boundaries between science and technology became permeable in the course of the 20th century (Latour, 1987), the definiti...
They contained about 1,100 tons of radioactive contaminated soil and vegetation from Palomares, a village on the South Coast of Spain. Earlier that year, about 9 kg of plutonium had been scattered over Palomares due to a U.S. Air Force accident involving four nuclear bombs. In this paper ...
Palomares Spainlow-energy accelerator mass spectrometrynuclear fuelthermonuclear bombsB52 bomber accident duringIn 1966, the nuclear fuel of two thermonuclear bombs was released over the Spanish region of Palomares, due to a B52 bomber accident during a refuelling operation. Since then, much effort has...