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Testimonies. Witness of French nuclear testing in the South Pacific (1990)
| Author | Greenpeace |
| Date | August 1990 |
| Classification | 6.01.4.50/27 (RADIATION - CONSEQUENCES NUCLEAR TESTS) |
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From the publication:
Introduction Moruroa, in the Maohi language of Polynesia, means the Place of the Great Secret. Today this is a cruelly appropriate name for a once-beautiful palm covered atoll in the Tuamotu Islands of French Polynesia. At Moruroa and nearby Fangataufa atoll, France has conducted 44 atmospheric and more than 120 underground nuclear tests, and these test explosions are continuing at the rate of about six a year. In the face of strong local and international opposition the French authorities have succeeded in maintaining the test programme by protecting Moruroa's great secret and concealing the full medical and environmental effects of its nuclear programme. The little independent scientific evidence available shows that the Moruroa tests have released dangerous levels of radiation into the atmosphere and into the sea, shattered the base of the atoll, and contaminated people living and working around the test sites. For many years Polynesian leaders in Tahiti, political leaders in other Pacific countries, the Pacific Conference of Churches, organisations such as the Nobel Prize-winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) and many others have expressed their concern about the effects of French tests. The attitude of the French government has remained unchanged since the tests began: there is no danger, trust the authorities.
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