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	Moruroa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moruroa (Mururura, Mururoa) (21°50′S 138°55′W.) is an atoll in which forms part of the Tuamoto archipelago in French Polynesia in the southern Pacific Ocean.
		It is reported that the pass of Moruroa, as well as the N and S approaches, are obstructed by a chain boom.
		Moruroa, along with the neighbouring atoll of Fangataufa, was the site of approximately 200 atmospheric and underground nuclear tests conducted by the French Government between 1966 and 1996.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moruroa (527 words)

	Poisoned Pacific: The legacy of French nuclear testing \| thebulletin.org
		The only portion of Moruroa available for underground testing was a 23-kilometer strip of the southern half of the reef ring, since the rest of the island was covered with laboratories, warehouses, airstrips, and living quarters.
		This time, the civilian technicians employed at Moruroa, fearing for their lives, leaked a secret report to the French press, revealing that the storm had washed out to sea the huge amounts of nuclear waste that had been allowed to accumulate on the north coast.
		Moruroa atoll may be nearly used up from nuclear testing, but as French officials have pointed out, there are 75 more atolls in the Tuamotu group.
	www.thebulletin.org /article.php?art_ofn=mar90danielsson (5424 words)

	Archipel des Tuamotu − Moruroa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Moruroa (de moru, filet, et roa, long ; improprement orthographié et prononcé Mururoa) est un anneau de corail long de 55 km.
		Moruroa (moru, net, and roa, length; improperly spelled and pronounced Mururoa) is a long coral ring 55 kms in length.
		Located at 1250 km south-east of Tahiti, Moruroa is an atoll of 28 km in length and 11 km in width.
	www.polynesiepassion.net /galerie/diapo.php?cat=58&expand=14,46 (480 words)

	Greenpeace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Between 1978 to 1985, crew members also engaged in non-violent direct action against the ocean-dumping of toxic and radioactive waste, the Grey Seal hunt in the Orkneys and nuclear testing in the Pacific.
		Greenpeace's continued protest against nuclear testing at Moruroa atoll prompted the government of France to order the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1985.
		The Warrior had sailed from the North Pacific, where it assisted the evacuation of the inhabitants of Rongelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands, who continued to suffer health effects attributed to the fallout from American nuclear testing during the 1950s and 1960s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greenpeace (3152 words)

	France - So Fond of Demonizing the US - Lindaland
		Former test workers were stationed on the atomic-test islands of Moruroa and Fangataufa, the garrison island of Hao, or in laboratories on the main island of Tahiti.
		She was forced to handle apparently radioactive coral from Moruroa and prepare it for analysis.
		In the Moruroa and Us study, it was established that in Polynesia, 25.7 out of 100,000 women contracted thyroid cancer, compared to a ratio of 4.8 out of 100,000 women in France.
	www.linda-goodman.com /ubb/Forum16/HTML/001257.html (3957 words)

	Results for Moruroa
		The people of the Cook Islands have rejected the resumption of nuclear testing by the French at Moruroa Atoll (aka Mururoa).
		It is reported that the pass of Moruroa, as well as the N and S approaches, are obstructed...
		Besides Tahiti's elected officials, the invitation to visit Moruroa during the second half...
	www.xasa.biz /buscar/search/Moruroa (225 words)

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		Whilst the direction and speed at which radionuclides are transported from Moruroa Atoll differs when ocean current variability is included in the instantaneous release experiments, the maximum concentration signal decays at similar rates.
		The small size of Moruroa Atoll is not specifically resolved by any of the three models, so it may be assumed that in all cases the initial concentration is underestimated as it is instantaneously mixed over the source grid box.
		The results of our study show the tracer being advected beyond the boundaries of both these earlier studies within the 10-year integration (Figure 12), a situation that is impossible to account for in the earlier models.
	web.maths.unsw.edu.au /~matthew/doughaze/projects_moruroa_discussion.html (2201 words)

	Moruroa und Us
		It is the first time since the beginning of the nuclear tests in 1966 that the Polynesian former test workers have been the subject of an independent inquiry, It is not officially known how many Polynesians worked for the French nuclear testing program.
		Lifting the veil of secrecy, demystifying Moruroa, also implies carrying out independent medical and epidemiological research among for the employees and their families as well as comparative cancer research in Polynesia and the surrounding region.
		Considering the overall costs of the nuclear program, its impact upon Polynesian society, the experiences gained elsewhere, for instance with the American testing program in Nevada and the Marshall islands, it is astonishing that during the last 30 years apparently no measures were taken and data collected to prepare such investigation.
	www.inesap.org /bulletin15/bul15art06.htm (2021 words)

	Environmental Effects of Nuclear Testing
		The Moruroa Atoll (21.83o Southern latitude and 138.88o Western longitude) is one of the largest coral atolls in that area.
		According to these criteria, Moruroa is a very poor choice: the geological structure of Moruroa is water-saturated; there are natural fractures as well as a veritable network of fissures due to the explosions.
		Moruroa was also used as a safety trial area.(36) (A safety trial area is a test to check whether an atomic bomb will explode on impact with a hard surface -as in the event of a plane crash.
	canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz /peace/nukenviro.html (4801 words)

	Medical, Environmental and Social costs of French Nuclear Testing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Despite severe limitations by the French government on independent assessment of the environmental effects of the tests, and a partly deliberate lack of epidemiologically sound data on which monitoring of effects on human health can be based, it is clear that significant health and environmental effects have occured, and more are likely.
		In Mangareva in 1975, 56% of the population of 500-600 were poisoned; between 1960 and 1984 the average number of reported attacks of ciguatera per inhabitant was 5.7.
		This is likely to represent the beginning of long-term leakage from what is in effect an extremely unsuitable high level radioactive waste storage site: water-saturated, fractured rocks without containment structures or natural barriers, their integrity markedly reduced by the explosions, the fracture zones of which can be expected to overlap.
	users.westnet.gr /~cgian/medenv.htm (886 words)

	Moruroa e Tatou (French Nuclear Weapons Test Veterans)
		On July 2nd 1966, France conducted its first nuclear test on the Moruroa atoll, an atmospheric test that was to be followed by another 45 as well as by 147 underground tests in the atolls of Moruroa and Fangataufa.
		On the occasion of this anniversary, the association would like to remind that all former test workers have suffered serious prejudice as a consequence of their working on the test sites: a number of them have died prematurely and a larger number still suffer serious health problems, cancers and other illnesses.
		Moruroa e tatou also want to draw the attention of the authorities responsible on the hygienic risks the populations of Polynesia were exposed to, and particularly the inhabitants of the islands and atolls located in the vicinity of the former test sites.
	www.converge.org.nz /pma/cra0648.htm (530 words)

	Moruroa: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Moruroa (Mururura, Mururoa) (.) is an atoll (atoll: An island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon) in which forms part of the Tuamoto archipelago in French Polynesia (French Polynesia: A French overseas possession in the South Pacific) in the southern Pacific Ocean (Pacific Ocean: The largest ocean in the world).
		The lagoon is entered with a lighted beacon (.) bearing 096.5°, situated at the center of the lagoon.
		Moruroa, along with the neighbouring atoll of Fangataufa (Fangataufa: fangataufa (fangatafoa) (.) is a small, low, narrow, barrier reef....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/moruroa (515 words)

	Lynn Pistoll. Moruroa Blues... - Russian Bookstore: Travel, History, Language
		The voyage itself was the distance of two trans-Atlantic crossings, held in the middle of winter and with the outward leg mainly to windward.
		Once at Moruroa, there were no bars or beaches for relaxing, just a hostile reception from French navy and aircraft, and yet, inspite of gear failures, crew disagreements and some appalling weather, all boats returned home safely.
		From a small boat perspective, 'The Moruroa Blues' gives a fine account of day to day life in the 'Coffee Shop' - the name given to a featureless patch of ocean to the north west of the atoll entrance which was used as an informal meeting place.
	www.fabrussia.com /books-essays-travelogues/099/lynn-pistoll-moruroa-blues.htm (255 words)

	Effects of Nuclear Testing at Moruroa and Fangataufa
		The 180 or so atmospheric and underground tests at Moruroa and Fangatauf atolls have dispersed in the environment or created crude waste dumps underground of hundreds of kilograms of plutonium and other highly radioactive fission products.
		On July 25 1979, an explosion created serious fractures in the side of the atoll (which were partially filmed by the Cousteau Mission) and a subsequent tidal wave engulfed installations.
		volcanic rock at Moruroa and the depth necessary to do the tests in a wayto enable us to calculate the exact mechanical impact of nuclear tests were not supplied by the French authorities.
	archive.greenpeace.org /comms/rw/bkgndefx.html (797 words)

	Moruroa: Journey into the bomb \| Greenpeace International
		He and two crew had been 70 days at sea, and they were stationed in the forbidden zone outside Moruroa, the Pacific atoll where the French government tested nuclear weapons in the atmosphere.
		The next day, the French sent a minesweeper to "escort" Vega out of the blast zone, and when McTaggart and the crew refused, a high-seas game of manoeuvres ensued which ended with the ramming of Vega and the detention of McTaggart and his crew.
		On his return to Moruroa in 1973, he so infuriated the French military that he and his crew were beaten to the point that McTaggart lost vision in one of his eyes for several months.
	www.greenpeace.org /international/about/history/moruroa-journey-into-the-bomb (578 words)

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		They have moved out some of the people living on some of the islands close to Moruroa, they moved those people to Tahiti and we, ever since then, the whole health department is under military control.
		Moruroa is where France is having their nuclear testing, and that since 1966.
		The first one in Moruroa and the second one in the island of Fangataufa which is an island close to Moruroa.
	www.ratical.org /radiation/WorldUraniumHearing/MyronMataoa.txt (2066 words)

	Moruroa nuclear veteran dies of leukemia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Moruroa nuclear veteran Alfred Pautehea who was vocal in the nuclear veterans’ plight to have their illness recognised as nuclear-related, has died of leukemia at the weekend in his island home of Atuona in the Marquesas.
		Moruroa e Tatou represents 3,000 nuclear veterans from French Polynesia, the association said in a release.
		In November, Moruroa e Tatou initiated legal action in a Paris tribunal on the same issue.
	www.hellopacific.com /news/general/news/2004/02/25/25regh.html (600 words)

	Moruroa nuclear blasts lethal, French tribunal rules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The French case concerned a naval serviceman, Francois Janas, and was brought on behalf of his daughters.
		Mr Long blames his skin cancer on exposure to Moruroa tests when he was on a New Zealand Navy frigate sent to the area in 1973.
		France conducted a total of 193 tests at Moruroa and a nearby atoll, Fangataufa, between 1966 and 1996.
	www.hellopacific.com /news/general/news/2003/02/16/pina1.htm (608 words)

	Conscious Choice: Chirac Goes Fission for Votes
		The French decision to resume nuclear testing on the South Pacific atoll of Moruroa offers a case study of what is wrong with the functioning democracies of the industrial West.
		Environmentally, the French tests at Moruroa are a disaster for the region.
		The RWII headed for Moruroa where it was rammed by a French war ship and stormed by tear-gas-throwing troops.
	www.consciouschoice.com /1995-98/cc085/note085.html (1938 words)

	Radio Australia - Pacific Beat - Stories - FRENCH POLYNESIA: President gets personal about Moruroa
		The ABC TV program, broadcast on Tuesday night in Australia, tells of efforts by former Moruroa workers to lift the veil of secrecy on thirty years of French nuclear testing.
		Many former Moruroa workers fear that radiation exposure will affect future generations, but Dr. Gilles Soubiran says there is a need for further research to determine if there are any direct health effects.
		If we had a list of people who worked at Moruroa we could have an investigation that really targeted those people, to see if those who were the closest to the radiation zone really have more illnesses than the rest of the Polynesian people or the global population.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/pacbeat/stories/s1204436.htm (875 words)

	In Tahiti, they proclaim, No Boom Boom Here
		French officials say the water remains untainted, but Moruroa workers tell of people who became quite ill, even died, after eating fish from the lagoon.
		Moruroa may be a rallying cry for worldwide anti-nuke protests.
		In many ways, the battle for the blue seas of Moruroa has been a birthright for the environmental group with the guerrilla tactics.
	www.gluckman.com /TahitiNuke2.html (4752 words)

	Greenpeace protest voyages to Moruroa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		1972: David McTaggart and crew sail to Moruroa from New Zealand on his yacht Vega/Greenpeace III in protest at continued atmospheric testing a decade after the PTBT was signed.
		After a 90 minute high speed chase the ship and 5 inflatables are seized by commandos within half a mile of Moruroa lagoon.
		The scientific team are deported and the ship impounded at Moruroa for two days before being released.
	archive.greenpeace.org /comms/rw/gpchro.html (535 words)

	Radio Australia - Pacific Beat - Stories - FRENCH POLY: President to discuss nuclear test issues in France
		One sensitive topic on the agenda is the legacy of nuclear testing at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls, and a possible compensation package for former workers from the test sites.
		President Temaru himself worked as a customs officer on Moruroa, and this week he said that France has "a debt in relation to French Polynesia, a moral responsibility that it must acknowledge and address." Next week, church leaders from eleven Pacific countries will travel to Tahiti to discuss the legacies of the nuclear era.
		'Moruroa e Tatou' is also collaborating with AVEN, the French association of military personnel affected by the tests.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/pacbeat/stories/s1137426.htm (727 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Edouard Huriore, a former worker at Moruroa for nine years participated in the interviews during the sociological survey of former workers from Moruroa for the book.
		Speaking at a press conference at Greenpeace, in Suva, yesterday, Huriore, a firsthand witness of such terrifying confrontations, and Roland Oldham, a member and co-founder of the Polynesian Independent Human Rights League, said the workers were not told of the effects of radiation from the substances they worked with when they joined.
		Huriore, who worked at Moruroa from 1978 to 1988, left after learning of the risks involved to him and and possibly his future generations.
	www.sidsnet.org /pacific/usp/journ/nius/docs/may98/1352.html (672 words)

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