The nuclear accident in Palomares, Spain resulted in a truly awful movie, “The Day the Fish Came Out” (1967), which incidentally included Candice Bergen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Fish_Came_Out
But the actual cleanup was very bizarre. Because nukes were involved, the Pentagon bought up all their primary crop of tomatoes, and everyone involved had to eat tomatoes three times a day to demonstrate to the locals that they were safe.
Since a staggering amount of manpower was used, most enlisted in the US military in Europe were rotated there at some point.
Several square miles of beach sand were scooped up, put into 55 gallon drums and shipped to Virginia, where it still likely remains. It was replaced by an equivalent amount of beach sand.
There is a pretty good account of this event given in John Craven’s book “The Silent War”.
Fascinating