The Local Spain https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Portugal protests against Spain stockpiling nuclear waste near border Portugal has accused Spain of stockpiling nuclear waste close to its border without evaluating the environmental impact, in a complaint filed Monday with Brussels. https://www.thelocal.es/20170117/portugal-protests-against-spain-nuclear-waste-near-border Tue, 17 Jan 2017 11:14:36 +0100 portugal-protests-against-spain-nuclear-waste-near-border US agrees to clean up site of 1966 nuclear accident in southern Spain Nearly 50 years after an accident saw US nuclear bombers crash in southern Spain, Washington finally agreed to clean up radioactive material from the site around Palomares. https://www.thelocal.es/20151019/us-agree-to-clean-up-1966-nuclear-accident-site-in-southern-spain Mon, 19 Oct 2015 13:11:50 +0200 us-agree-to-clean-up-1966-nuclear-accident-site-in-southern-spain Row threatens Spain's first nuclear graveyard Spain's conservative government and the central region of Castilla-La Mancha locked horns Thursday over plans to build the nation's first-ever temporary storage facility for highly radioactive waste. https://www.thelocal.es/20150731/row-over-plans-for-spains-first-nuclear-graveyard Fri, 31 Jul 2015 10:47:45 +0200 row-over-plans-for-spains-first-nuclear-graveyard Nuclear reactor shut down after blackout The Vandellos II nuclear power plant, in northeastern Spain, was closed on Tuesday after suffering an electricity failure caused by high winds. https://www.thelocal.es/20150204/catalan-nuclear-reactor-shuts-down-after-blackout Wed, 04 Feb 2015 11:23:00 +0100 catalan-nuclear-reactor-shuts-down-after-blackout Spanish police bust Iran weapons material gang Spain's Civil Guard police force said on Monday they had dismantled a criminal gang which was planning to ship weapons producing materials to Iran. https://www.thelocal.es/20140407/network-planned-to-ship-weapons-material-to-iran-2 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:25:00 +0200 network-planned-to-ship-weapons-material-to-iran-2 France reveals atomic bomb risk to Spain Declassified documents from 1960 have shown that radiation from France's atomic bomb tests in the Algerian Sahara desert reached as far as the south coast of Spain. https://www.thelocal.es/20140214/france-reveals-atomic-bomb-risk-to-spain Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:21:00 +0100 france-reveals-atomic-bomb-risk-to-spain