[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, GLOBAL: "Harrowing Report Finds 110, 000 People Were Contaminated by French Nuclear Tests"

[Lenny Siegel]

Harrowing Report Finds 110,000 People Were Contaminated by French Nuclear Tests 

by PETER DOCKRILL
Science Alert
MARCH 10, 2021
 
The horrific extent of decades of controversial nuclear tests conducted by France in the islands of French Polynesia has been revealed in a new report, calculating the true scale of an unmitigated health disaster that researchers say has been hidden or ignored for decades.

Beginning in 1966, France began in secret a new round of nuclear tests at the Polynesian atolls of Moruroa and Fangataufa – a classified military program that continued for 30 years before ending amidst mass protests in 1996, almost 200 nuclear explosions later.

In a new two-year investigation conducted by an international group of security researchers, data scientists, and investigative journalists, the team stitched together and analyzed an archive of approximately 2,000 pages of now declassified French government and military documents.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sciencealert.com/french-nuclear-tests-in-pacific-exposed-110-000-people-to-radiation-researchers-say

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
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