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It's been 40 years since the French sunk the Rainbow Warrior. They wanted to stop the protests against nuclear testing at ...
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Noeline Colman is 75 but she is still willing to fight for what she believes in. Her role as Patron of the Mururoa Nuclear Veterans Group has her up against the Government, which does not accept ...
BLASTED: New Zealand veterans exposed to radiation from French nuclear testing are seeking compensation.Supplied New Zealand veterans exposed to radiation from French nuclear testing at Mururoa ...
TOKYO - Pacific island nations are urging Japan to delay the release of water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant over fears that fisheries will be contaminated, the Pacific Island ...
It is Mururoa atoll, 750 miles southeast of Tahiti in the South Pacific. In the past three years, France has spent $600 million on the new test facility.
A French nuclear test, codenamed Dione, a 34-kiloton blast at Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific in 1971 (Picture: Getty) The country spent the most on its nuclear weapons in 2023, £40.7bn ($51 ...
The Mururoa tests stopped in 1996 and, after a protracted conflict in the 1980s, France in 1988 reached a political settlement in New Caledonia with the pro-independence Front National de ...
In 1995, France conducted an underground nuclear test at the Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific. It was the first of several -- all of which were met by protests worldwide.
Pacific Island leaders will review a report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog on Japan's proposed Fukushima treated water release before deciding a position, Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown said ...
The Australian protest ketch Warana, flying the flags of four nations, sailed from Williamstown on an 11,000-mile mission to try to halt the French nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll.
Pacific island nations are urging Japan to delay the release of water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant over fears fisheries will be contaminated, the Pacific Island Forum (PIF ...