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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France concealed the levels of radioactivity that French Polynesia was exposed to during French nuclear tests in the Pacific from 1966-1996, with almost the "entire population" of the overseas territory infected, a report said on Tuesday.