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France hid radioactivity levels that French Polynesia islanders were exposed to during decades of nuclear testing in the Pacific, with nearly the entire population of the overseas territory infected, a report alleges.
About 110,000 people were infected during the French military s nuclear testing from 1966 to 1996, but only 63 have been compensated, the study by online investigation site Disclose found.
The impact of the 1974 Centaur nuclear test left more than 100,000 people exposed.
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An automatic camera captures an atomic bomb blast conducted by France, on the Mururoa Atoll, part of French Polynesia, in the South Pacific Ocean, in July 1970.(AP) According to our calculations, based on a scientific reassessment of the doses received, approximately 110,000 people were infected, almost the entire Polynesian population at the time, the report said.
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From 1966 to 1974, France conducted 41 above-ground test of nuclear weapons on the Moruroa atoll, including this one of a 0.9-megaton giant in the Licorne test on 3 July 1970. CTBTO/SCIENCE SOURCE
France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from atom bomb tests, study finds
Mar. 11, 2021 , 2:30 PM
From 1966 to 1974, France blew up 41 nuclear weapons in above-ground tests in French Polynesia, the collection of 118 islands and atolls that is part of France. The French government has long contended that the testing was done safely. But a new analysis of hundreds of documents declassified in 2013 suggests the tests exposed 90% of the 125,000 people living in French Polynesia to radioactive fallout roughly 10 times as many people as the French government has estimated.