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	Mururoa Nuclear Tests, RNZN protest Veterans - Home
		In 1973, the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, Norman Kirk, stated that the French where disobeying the World Court by continuing to test Nuclear bombs in the Pacific, namely at Mururoa Atoll.
		He sent a Government Representative the right honourable Fraser Colman, and the frigate HMNZS Otago, and then the frigate HMNZS Canterbury to stimulate world opinion against nuclear testing.
		This site is intended to keep crew members of HMNZS Otago and HMNZS Canterbury that went to Mururoa Atoll (sometimes spelt Moruroa Atoll) in June, July and August 1973, the news media personel, the Government representative, and a representative from the National Laboratory, informed of medical, and other developments as they effect us.
	www.mururoavet.com (134 words)

	Nuclear Tests in French Polynesia
		Mururoa and Fangataufa atolls are located in French Polynesia, in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean about halfway between Australia and South America.
		Mururoa is 63 km in perimeter; Fangataufa, 40 km to the south, is only about one quarter the size.
		The levels of the two major long-lived radionuclides, caesium-137 and strontium-90, deposited on the earth’s surface attributable to the French atmospheric tests in the period 1966 to 1974 represent 13 percent of the total deposition of these radionuclides in the latitude of the two atolls.
	www.iaea.org /Publications/Booklets/mururoabook.html (4099 words)

	Case Study
		The French colony of Mururoa Atoll is located in the southeast corner of the Taumotu archipelago in French Polynesia.
		The conflict is mainly between France and French Polynesia, especially Mururoa Atoll.
		There is low conflict concerning the degradation of Mururoa Atoll and the fragile ecological system that exists in the South Pacific.
	www.american.edu /ted/ice/mururoa.htm (1976 words)

	1968 - French Atmospheric Nuclear Testing Series
		On 27 June 1967, the Antares nuclear test was conducted at Mururoa.
		Some 5,936 uniformed personnel were stationed at Mururoa, Fangataufa, Hao, and Tahiti for the 1968 campaign, with an additional 2,265 civilian technicians.
		Mururoa and Fangataufa were both evacuated for the test.
	www.atomicforum.org /france/1968.html (2079 words)

	Pitcairn Islands Study Center
		MURUROA (Moruroa, ancient name: Hiti-Tautau-Mai) An atoll in the Tuamotus at 21 degrees 50 minutes South, 138 degrees 55 minutes West.
		Mururoa was discovered by Lieutenant Philip Carteret in HMS Swallow in 1767, just a few days after he had discovered Pitcairn.
		Mururoa has become famous – or, rather, infamous – for the atomic testing that the French conducted on the atoll beginning in the early 1960s.
	library.puc.edu /pitcairn/pitcairn/encyclopedia4.shtml (2179 words)

	French Nuclear Testing in European Courts Case T-219/95 R
		Mururoa and Fangataufa were used by the French authorities for the testing of nuclear devices from 1966 to 1991, when experiments were interrupted under an voluntary moratorium.
		Such landslides are liable to give rise and have in the past given rise to tsunamis, or tidal waves, causing coastal damage in areas as far away as Pitcairn and Tahiti and endangering residences such as that of Ms Danielsson.
		The applicants state that such leakage already occurs at Mururoa at rates found by scientists to be higher than those assumed by the French authorities, and stress that the geology of the island makes it unsuitable to contain such waste safely.
	www.globelaw.com /Nukes/fnteucas.htm (3862 words)

	Australian Press Coverage of the 1995 Mururoa Nuclear Test
		This paper analyses coverage of the first Mururoa nuclear test and associated events in the Pacific by The Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald in the period 4th-9th September, 1995.
		It is argued that this myth acted as a backdrop against which events were interpreted and that it ultimately inflected these interpretations in a way which supported the political status quo in French Polynesia despite the violation of the test itself.
		Each view contributes to a descriptive account of Australia's press coverage of Mururoa and to some extent, for example in the documentation of news sources and of the "authorised knowers" (Ericson et al., 1987: 17-18) with respect to this event, allows us to explain the nature of the coverage.
	www.uow.edu.au /crearts/sjcw/APME/APME_Issue5/Putnis.html (721 words)

	TAC 25: 10 Differences between Mururoa Atoll and the Munros of Atholl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Mururoa Atoll has in its favour endless sunshine, friendly natives, Bacardi on tap and being an extremely long way from Tavistock.
		And every time the French government explodes an atomic bomb under Mururoa, the atoll, along with all its inhabitants and wildlife, is briefly and prettily aglow with nuclear isotopes.
		Mururoa Atoll has been subjected to a vast amount of fallout over the years.
	bubl.ac.uk /org/tacit/tac/tac25/10differ.htm (638 words)

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		Mururoa is a seamount- formed more than 7 million years ago when a volcano erupted beneath the sea.
		Mururoa may not be leaking now, yet even the French admit the radioactive waste stored under their feet will eventually escape.
		The French claim the basalt that forms the base of Mururoa is not very porous; so any water in the blast chambers will take thousands of years to move through the rock.
	www.abc.net.au /quantum/info/mururoa.htm (2431 words)

	"Nuclear fallout"
		Mururoa, where the tests are to take place, lies about 200 miles southeast of Tahiti, in a part of the South Pacific controlled by the French.
		Beneath the ground, there is little agreement about the condition of the rock, or its ability to contain the radioactive elements injected from scores of previous tests.
		There's even disagreement about the number of previous atomic tests on Mururoa - 120 to 200, depending on whether the number comes from New Zealand, Greenpeace, or the French government.
	sln.fi.edu /inquirer/fallout.html (1550 words)

	The Situation at Muroroa and Fangataufa Atolls
		Most of the tests were conducted at Mururoa, the larger of the two atolls, and the rest, mostly the larger tests, were conducted at Fangataufa.
		There were 41 tests conducted in the atmosphere, 37 at Mururoa and four at Fangataufa, most of them by hanging the device from a balloon at a considerable elevation above the ground.
		There were 137 underground tests — 127 at Mururoa and ten at Fangataufa, the majority of which were conducted with devices lowered into holes drilled into the rock beneath either the rim or the lagoon of the atolls.
	www-ns.iaea.org /appraisals/mura-fang.htm (822 words)

	Mururoa nuclear blasts lethal, French tribunal rules - 08 Feb 2003 - NZ Herald: New Zealand and International ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		A New Zealand veteran, Patrick Long, who blames his skin cancer on exposure to Mururoa tests in 1973 when he was on the Navy frigate Canterbury, said the ruling could open the way to claims against foreign Governments.
		Mr Long said the New Zealand Government had never acknowledged his illness was linked to serving at Mururoa but had paid all his medical bills, including six major operations on his face and almost-weekly visits to his skin specialist.
		France conducted a total of 193 tests at Mururoa and a nearby atoll, Fangataufa, between 1966 and 1996, 46 of which were conducted above ground before the introduction of a ban on atmospheric blasts in 1975.
	www.nzherald.co.nz /category/story.cfm?c_id=39&objectid=3100138 (664 words)

	Eye Weekly - Nuke numbskulls - 09.14.95
		In the case of Mururoa, there are fleets of both protest ships and the French Navy, in a scenario which is getting up there in terms of sheer scale with some of the more famous nautical battles.
		Ruzycki, who was the driver on his Zodiac, said that the biggest concerns were avoiding the reefs around Mururoa and finding the entrance to the lagoon.
		After a three-hour ride accompanied by a Tahitian, Ruzycki made it into the mouth of the lagoon and had the detonation tower for La Bombe in sight when two French boats, one a Zodiac and the other a bigger, aluminum- hulled speedboat, came hurtling through the pre-dawn light toward him.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_09.14.95/NEWS/env0914.php (874 words)

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		Waste management at Mururoa in earlier times was poor; it is now very good and the French authorities are making every reasonable effort to clean up previously contaminated land areas.
		ELDERS AND ADULTS - BLOCKADE MURUROA It is important to accept that the nuclear assault on Mururoa is part of a human (not merely "French") attack on planetary ecosystems and life globally.
		French authorities are probably secure in their belief that ships of other nations will not form a blockade around Mururoa to protect her from the insane 'experiments' by physically keeping war-scientists off the atoll.
	www.ratical.org /ratville/nukes/Mururoa07.04.95.txt (1451 words)

	THE ASIAN TSUNAMI... ANOTHER MANMADE DISASTER
		The court document also revealed that the Mururoa landslide shifted approximately one million cubic meters of coral and rock and created a cavity estimated at 460 feet in diameter.
		He filmed spectacular cracks and fissures in the atoll as well as submarine slides and subsidence, which explains to a great extent, the move in 1988 of the largest nuclear tests to Fangataufa atoll.
		In the event of a major rock slide, on the north side of Mururoa, the nuclear test cavities previously drilled would become exposed and potentially cause a sudden release of radioactive materials into the southern oceans, affecting Australia and South America.
	www.etherzone.com /2005/dale040805.shtml (2423 words)

	Essential Reading: French Neanderthal behavior in Mururoa, 1995
		In 1995 nuclear "device" detonation activities by the French government in their "vassal" "state" on the island of Mururoa in the South Pacific drew into sharp focus the fact of what is a fundamentally inappropriate type of "behavior" for such archaic entities as "nations" to be engaged in.
		A woman whose husband worked between 1969 and 1974 on Mururoa, explained in 1985 to the European parlamentarian Dorothee Piermont that she had six misscarriages in succession.
		Many represantatives from polynesian churches, environmental organizations, political parties, with them the minister for health Jacqui Drollet demanded in august 1988 the establishment of an radiometer-institute under the control of the W H O that should examine coherence between the cancer rates and the nuclear fallout.
	www.ratical.org /ratville/nukes/Mururoa.html (4727 words)

	Environmentalists Against War
		But he said the French Ministry of Defence was refusing to co-operate with the commission and was keeping secret files in Paris while insisting that Mururoa and Fangataufa were still off limits.
		The news agency Tahitipresse reported last week that Bruno Chareyron, head of the independent French Commission on Radioactivity Research and Information, was unable to say whether there is or was radioactivity on Mangareva, in the Gambier Islands.
		At the inquiry hearing on Mangareva, 450 kilometres south-east of Mururoa, witnesses talked of "an accident" on July 2, 1966, after which the French military bought vegetables in Papeete instead of locally and talked about children being covered with wounds after an atmospheric test.
	www.envirosagainstwar.org /know/read.php?itemid=3358 (435 words)

	mururoa
		During that Summer, here ours first concerts, but also the first disappointments: ours is a musical kind little beloved in Italy, and, in our village (like in the rest of that province), we have greeted like aliens.
		On September, Alessndro does an excellent job with his PC creating two compact discs: the first CD contains 30 Mururoa riff never used for layout of passages, in need to preserve them, in case the ideas must begin to be scarce.
		On March, Alessandro creates MURUROA 2000 with only 3 very long improvisations, that he subdivides in 6 separated traces for duration of over a hour.
	music.mp3lizard.com /mururoa (1770 words)

	PR 98/4 - 29 May 1998 - Study of Radiological Situation at Atolls of Mururoa and Fangataufa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		A comprehensive report of the study of the current radiological situation at the Atolls of Mururoa and Fangataufa in French Polynesia is being released this week by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
		The Study concluded therefore that neither remedial actions nor continuing environmental monitoring at Mururoa and Fangataufa are needed on radiological protection grounds.
		The Study suggested nevertheless that an environmental monitoring programme may be useful in assuring the public about the continuing radiological safety of the atolls.
	www.fas.org /news/france/prn0498.html (564 words)

	THE RADIOLOGICAL SITUATION AT THE ATOLLS OF MURUROA AND FANGATAUFA PR 1998/09 (29 June 1998)
		A main finding of the Study's sampling and surveillance campaign is that concentrations of residual radioactive material present in the accessible environment of the atolls are in general very low.
		However, the Study also noted that there were several kilograms of residual plutonium in the sediments in the lagoon of each atoll; that particles containing plutonium were present on three islets of the Mururoa Atoll, and that levels of caesium-137 were somewhat elevated in small areas of the Fangataufa Atoll.
		The Conference proceedings which will contain a record of the discussion, and an overall summary of the views and conclusions arising from the Conference will be published by the IAEA soon after the Conference.
	f40.iaea.org /worldatom/Press/P_release/1998/prn0998.shtml (852 words)

	Poisoned Pacific: The legacy of French nuclear testing \| thebulletin.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		He told the National Assembly in December 1983: "After thorough investigation of the Mururoa site, lasting eight days, and after having taken all the samples they needed and desired, the members of the team have admitted that France has adopted all necessary safeguards to assure that the tests are harmless.
		It can therefore be concluded that the tests of Mururoa are not dangerous." None of the applauding deputies asked when, where, and to whom the members of the Atkinson team had made the alleged statements.
		The Atkinson report, which was finally released at the beginning of July 1984, was highly critical regarding such subjects as radiation venting, leakage, and breakage occurring at Moruroa, on which the researchers were more or less expert.
	www.thebulletin.org /article.php?art_ofn=mar90danielsson (5424 words)

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