Scientists monitoring a beach in Fife for radioactive hotspots say they have discovered seven contaminated areas.
Local people are worried Dalgety Bay may now be placed on a new register for radioactively contaminated land.
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Seven radioactive spots on beach
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Spanish town still haunted by its brush with Armageddon
Thursday, September 11, 2008PALOMARES, Spain: The rest of the world has mostly forgotten, but the brush with nuclear Armageddon is seared on the minds of locals here and still niggles, 42 years later.
On the morning of Jan. 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber returning from a routine Cold War alert mission exploded during airborne refueling, sending its cargo of B28 hydrogen bombs plummeting toward earth. One went into the azure waters of the Mediterranean and three others fell around this poor farming village, about 200 kilometers, or 125 miles, east of Granada.
