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Mururoa Atoll The use of the Mururoa Atoll by the French for nuclear testing the role of government the impact on the indigenous people Role and Responsibility of Government 1768 The French sailed to Tahiti ID: 263369

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Slide1

Blowing Up Paradise

Mururoa

Atoll

The use of the

Mururoa

Atoll by the French for nuclear testing, the role of government, the impact on the indigenous people

Slide2
Slide3

Role and Responsibility of Government

1768: The French sailed to Tahiti

1842: Tahiti became a French colony

Up until 1950 there were only 1500 French settlers in a total population of

75000

After World War II Tahiti was

classified as a French territory

An indigenous equal rights movement began, but it was crushed by the French government

Slide4

1954, the French Prime Minister decided to build the atomic bomb

13

th

February 1960, first atomic bomb detonated in Algeria

Algeria became independent, so France had to search for a new test sight

Mururoa was chosen

The US and Russia and Britain signed an agreement in 1963 to ban

nulcear

testing in the atmosphere, under water and in space. France did not.Slide5

Impact on Indigenous People

Mururoa Atoll and

Fangataufa

Atoll were surrounded by inhabited islands.

The French government were warned that about 7000 islanders lived close by.

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nd

July 1966 – a plutonium device was placed on a barge in the lagoon. All the water in the lagoon was sucked into the air. The contents of the lagoon rained down on the islands. It was reported that mounds of irradiated fish covered the surrounding islands.Slide6

10

th

September 1966 the French President came to Mururoa for a bomb to be detonated in front of him.

The wind was blowing in the wrong direction, but De Gaulle was impatient to get back to France, so it was detonated anyway, despite warnings that it was not safe

Heavy radioactive fallout across the region was registered by monitoring stations.

A thermonuclear weapon detonated in 1968 over

Fangataufa

left the whole atoll

uninhabitable

.Slide7
Slide8

Protests

In the 1970s a boycott of French goods, airlines and shipping was having an impact on French business and trade

In 1974, the new French President ordered testing be moved underground

In the 1980s there were many independence movements in French Polynesia, Vanuatu gained independence in 1980Slide9

The Sad Facts

Between 1966 and 1992, France conducted 41 atmospheric tests and 138 tests in French Polynesia

Heavy radioactive fallout was registered in the area

In June 1996 President

Jaques

Chirac announced the end of nuclear testing at Mururoa and

Fangataufa