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France has concealed the levels of radioactivity that French Polynesia was exposed to during French nuclear tests in the Pacific from 1966 to 1996, during which almost the “entire population” of the overseas territory was exposed, according to a report.
Online investigation site Disclose said on Tuesday that it had analysed some 2,000 pages of French military documents declassified in 2013 by the defence ministry concerning nuclear tests on the archipelago.
Disclose said it worked for more than two years alongside British modelling and documentation firm Interprt as well as the science and global security programme of the University of Princeton in the US.
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Around 110,000 people in the South Pacific were affected by the radioactive fallout of French nuclear testing, according to a new independent investigation. Even more damningly, the report argues that France may have even downplayed the true impact of its nuclear tests carried out in one of its overseas territories in an attempt to bury the past.
At least 193 nuclear bomb tests were blasted over French Polynesia between 1966 to 1996. This included at least 46 atmospheric tests, nuclear explosions that take place in the atmosphere, as opposed to underground. On the other side of the planet, there were also early French nuclear tests being carried out in the Sahara, the effects of which have recently come back to haunt France in the form of a radioactive Saharan dust cloud.
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