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48: 1211: 1202: 1727: 453:. A major accident occurred on 25 July 1979 when a test was conducted at half the usual depth because the nuclear device got stuck halfway down the 800 metre shaft. It was detonated and caused a large submarine landslide on the southwest rim of the atoll, causing a significant chunk of the outer slope of the atoll to break loose and causing a tsunami affecting Mururoa and injuring workers. The blast caused a 2 kilometre long and 40 cm wide crack to appear on the atoll. 417: 297: 409: 29: 339: 55: 388:
himself was present at Moruroa on 10 September 1966 when a test was conducted, using a device suspended from a balloon. Most of these tests were conducted on the western end of the atoll, designated as Dindon. Smaller blasts were detonated on the northern end of the atoll, designated as Denise. Three
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Early European explorers found that the atoll was not continuously inhabited. In 1826 Beechey found it empty. A visit in 1832 found "dwellings but no inhabitants". A visiting ship in 1834 killed all but three of the inhabitants it found there, and it was unclaimed in 1847. It was briefly inhabited by
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The test site at Mururoa was dismantled following France's last nuclear test to date, which took place on 27 January 1996 on Fangataufa. In total, 181 explosions took place at Moruroa, 41 of which were atmospheric. However, the total number has been variously reported: nuclear scientists working at
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published a report entitled "Nuclear tests and health - Consequences in French Polynesia". The objective of this study was to establish an assessment of the available international scientific knowledge on the health consequences of the atmospheric nuclear tests conducted by France in French
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states in a 21st-century study that the explosion sucked all the water from the lagoon, "raining dead fish and mollusks down on the atoll", and that it spread contamination across the Pacific as far as Peru and New Zealand. President
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threatened to suspend France. These tests were meant to provide France with enough data to improve further nuclear technology without needing additional series of tests. The last nuclear test on Moruroa occurred on 27 December 1995.
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Operation Pilaster: The Story of the Voyages by the Frigates HMNZ Ships Otago and Canterbury, Supported by the Australian Naval Tanker, HMAS Supply, to Protest Against the French Atmospheric Nuclear Tests at Mururoa Atoll in
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A report from 2012 suggested that only 11 of the 20 monitoring system sensors are actually functional, which could mean the atoll could potentially collapse without forewarning of the monitoring system.
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France abandoned atmospheric nuclear testing in 1974 and moved to underground testing in the midst of intense world pressure which was sparked by the
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material trapped under the atolls would eventually escape and contaminate the surrounding ocean and neighbouring atolls, a case of so-called
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copra workers in the late nineteenth century, and again from 1942 to 1943 and 1950–52, but has had no permanent inhabitation since.
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Archives sur le Centre d'Expérimentations Nucléaires du Pacifique (C.E.P.) à Mururoa, Hao et Fangataufa
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KH-7 satellite reconnaissance image of the Mururoa Atomic Test Site in French Polynesia, 26 May 1967
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between 1966 and 1996, as well as the site of numerous protests by various vessels, including the
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An Australian Broadcasting Corporation interview with various nuclear scientists on Moruroa
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Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World
859: 824: 758: 724: 643: 493:, due to the high levels of radioactive contamination. The atoll is still guarded by 385: 257: 375:, the first nuclear test was conducted on 2 July 1966, code named Aldebaran, when a 1771: 1766: 1191: 523: 486: 316:. Carteret named Mururoa "Bishop of Osnaburgh Island". In 1792, the British whaler 245: 184: 814: 714: 1802: 1792: 1787: 1350: 1187: 1132: 941: 905: 752: 637: 313: 305: 141: 785: 1639: 1634: 1239: 1182: 514:
Polynesia, on the general population and former civilian and military workers.
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In February 2021, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research
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As of October 2005, it is still prohibited to visit Moruroa, according to the
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Testimonies: witnesses of French nuclear testing in the South Pacific
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Mururoa, and its sister atoll Fangataufa, were the site of extensive
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Centre de Documentation et de Recherche sur la Paix et les Conflits
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the site claim 175 explosions in total took place in the Pacific.
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Essais nucléaires et santé – Conséquences en Polynésie française
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Classification of the French Polynesian atolls by Salvat (1985)
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France finally agrees to pay damages to nuclear test victims
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of French wine. Riots took place across Polynesia, and the
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was to be signed, caused worldwide protests, including an
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was wrecked here, and it became known as Matilda's Rocks.
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Gambier Islands § Effects of French nuclear testing
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Direction des Centres d'Expérimentations Nucléaires
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NASA
Moruroa is located in French Polynesia
Pacific Ocean
21°50′S 138°50′W / 21.833°S 138.833°W / -21.833; -138.833
Tuamotus
above water
Overseas collectivity
French Polynesia
Administrative subdivision
Tuamotus
Commune
Tureia
atoll
Tuamotu Archipelago
French Polynesia
Pacific Ocean
Tahiti
commune
Tureia
Tureia
Fangataufa
Tematangi
Vanavana
nuclear weapon tests
Fangataufa

Philip Carteret
Pitcairn Island
Matilda

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