Southern Spain’s ‘Chernobil’: 30 years since a nuclear cemetery was buried in Andújar

“If people knew what was buried under that mountain, they wouldn’t go there.” At 84, Manuel Navas Fuentes is one of the few living testimonies of the Andújar Uranium Factory (FUA), considered the first radioactive facility in the country. Now it’s 44 years since its closure and 30 years since it was buried in the same place where it was operational for 22 years, managed by the former Nuclear Energy Board. Under that large mound, just 600 meters …