but there aren't any high places into a motu it is flat here there are no mountains there is nothing. if not more ah goes then so do we poor turia. a small loss of contempt and helplessness to forget about a very real fear. and anxiety that pushed the people to ask for a delegation to be sent to. visit took place last december. but the new deal we visited more or. you could see that a part of more was underwater. frankly for me that worried me i was very angry after what happened. destroyed the city. we wanted answers to our questions.

after their calculations and. mathematically speaking. they say there are no risks but logically we cannot say that it will leave more twenty metres high and arrive here at less than one meter it's not possible to know according to theoretical calculations published by the french commission on atomic energy the waves would only reach the edge of the island barely touching the feet of the inhabitants but the locals have a different experience of the terrain when large sum a wave swell and cover parts of terrain. i saw over there that. is no longer a nat'l it's an article of cement. they have calculated from

a very critical point that if it ever collapses in one go. they say there will be waves twenty meters high. and we know that a way of solving even one meter will definitely affect. it. now i don't really know what's going to happen it first starts the fact that we are so close maybe if it does fall violently they'll be a big mass of water. and any human will come and destroy us. i don't we have discovered something relatively irrational in the minds inhabitants of. when they compare things that aren't really comparable that's an immaterial scale and the amount of energy that is mobilized between a phenomena like the tidal wave that took place in japan is you know where the energy was considerable and the waves were fifteen meters tall and they wind up to

two kilometers inland with the phenomenon that could happen if the coral reef were to collapse. a tall here the way this life we did be between five and ten meters at the base of more. you know wave about two meters with this swell of around fifty centimeters you know in our most dire estimates it would send a wave of about two or three meters to the island of fucked in value. that would be enough to submerge around half the battle according to another computer simulation. because of all of variables involved such as wind blows strength and angle of the wave it's impossible to predict an exact scenario. and habitants have real reasons for concern. you will rule

after a visit to morrow we realize that we have been lied to for a very long time. since the beginning of the atmospheric and underground nuclear tests here the population hasn't believed anything that has been said all written telling us not to worry but a prosecutor. for me personally that's all has been shattered see it's as if bones have been crushed . well come on the. that's how we saw the atl. this road takes us to the highest point of the atl to see when the tsunami would arrive. there but here we are almost twenty one kilometers from the village of a model. and we are close to a horse which is

a little canal where the water flows into the ocean and the lagoon we need cover to the sea on it is via the hole that the waves would enter and they would make the levels of the moon rise until they completely immersed the village. and on the offense what are we going to do for our families for a for our children for our grandchildren. with this threat of a possible collapse we just don't know how to prepare for the future but if. some are already planning to emigrate to tahiti in any case the two hundred inhabitants of this forgotten not all have many unanswered questions and a lot of resentment. see the need it is a legacy that our ancestors left us created the land and our ancestors were able to look after it cherish it maintain it and then with everything that they did as he's

often herodotus was transformed into hell. and must be. paradise transformed into hell. this hell that the ministry of defense allowed us to visit is the secret calls morel are in poland. which was the stage for a hundred and thirty seven underground test between one thousand nine hundred eighty five and ninety ninety five. taking into account the size of the nuclear blasts but question whether they could have taken place without

having any effect on the stability of the. one hundred thirty seven wells between six hundred and twelve hundred meters deep dug in the lagoon and on the crown of the out all. these images taken in the one nine hundred sixty s. before the tests show a very regular crown. since the end of the nuclear tests we know that and more there are some zones that have been weakened due to the underground testing in particular. test on the twenty fifth of july one thousand nine hundred seventy nine caused some of the exterior slopes to collapse in the southwest zone and there was

a return wave that surprised everybody. seventeen kilometer protective wall was built after that. because we feared that there would be another collapse. today caused a collapse far less important than the one anticipated. in the northeast we drove to the six located between a lagoon and the ocean. the road ends in a cul de sac there is danger beyond this point. yes it does on your hind this zone there is what we call the callet bank on which there

is a deposit of plutonium left by security test which caused the dispersion of radionuclides . despite previous cleaning efforts there remains a deposit of a little less than two kilos of plutonium stuck in the rock and the coral reef about by ten meters down. so swimming here is out of the question for at least two hundred forty thousand years the total lifespan of plutonium. ne of more is is so new where twenty eight underground detonations were conducted it was recognized in the official documents from the ministry of defense that among these underground detonations seven were not contained in the volcanic zone so it was not verify. this is the media leave us so we leave the people. of the scene bush and secure.

the party this is the. issues that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politic. party. to be always one of the people that want to go a place where the rules haven't been written. and open a frontier a place a place where they have a chance to make their own world instead of just living in one that has already been made for them and that's a fundamental kind of freedom and that's what having an open frontier. people.

pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. around thirty of the wells used for underground detonations were packed to the brim with various waste and radioactive material and then covered with a slab. time has been weathering the concrete slowly eroding the cover of each well. it is the exact opposite of what you were supposed to do with radioactive waste national agency for radioactive waste set out some rules one

of which specifies that waste can't come into contact with water but there it had been put in the middle of the sea. is completely surrounded by water. is another problem. crossed with which the military claims are natural. opponents argue that they were the result of. whatever the cause they have grown larger over time following the unfortunate blast the french commission on atomic energy. station in one nine hundred eighty. different continental the last thirty years there's been a system in place called tel site that is a remote surveillance of the site and was constructed using several different installation techniques of laterally inclined drilling of cables that are anchored three to four thousand meters in the call cliffs that allow for very precise measurements of the movements there are seismic stations and inclinometer is in the wells that allow us to see and measure the internal movements of the rocks and then

there are various g.p.s. stations that allow us to measure the movements in relation to each other. with all this increasing surveillance of the earth all. tempting fate. these results are sent by satellite to the atomic energy commission office in paris where they're constantly analyzed throughout the. last surveillance report that was made available about the geologic stability of more was made in two thousand. we are already in two thousand and twelve and that was the last report that we had access to. the two thousand and nine report indicates that out of the twenty devices called accidents are matters. worse still functioning. he said. we have a wire for example in the france was that is stuck. kit is described in the report that it is stuck and obviously no longer gives any results. no results no readings

you know information you go of course it happens that the wires get caught and then become unstuck but we shouldn't necessarily rely on that and then of course a way can break the most important thing to remember is not whether this or that is working or not obviously it is better if it still works. and there are lots of security visit is the safety analysis regarding the failure of this or that sense that allows us to ensure that the security of our personnel is always maintained on that. do so we need to do some sort of rejuvenation of some of the devices which is something we are looking into at the moment and we are going to proceed and rejuvenate the material there. i am certain that security and safety is currently maintained thanks to the duplications of information we get from the various senses . renovation and redundancy other two main pillars of mirages

geological stability. so it would appear that continued monitoring has been taken care of even if far from perfect. and we've been assured that landslides will be detected days or even weeks before they happen. this is intended to reassure the residents even though procedures do exist for the emergency evacuation of the twenty or so military personnel present here at the moment but there is another concern for the residents. there are five kilos of plutonium and we are told settlement in a case of a hypothetical disaster this factor remains completely unknown. or is a unique case and opinions vary as to what will become of this potential threat was it. for them or i'm not especially worried about the collapse. see if it is a rather what is underneath that worries me. if opens due to

a collapse there are radioactive deposits underneath that will come to the surface that i think will end up contaminating the entire pacific zone. of this area and be the side which is exposed next to to rio which is called. to the tall. basket would be the other side a lot money matters because the way we work differently depending on which side it comes from if the wave goes further. then the quoted material will be moved as it goes on that is to say that the radioactive material will sink to the bottom tony m is rather heavy radioactive waste and so it sinks will it be aspirated by the floor and then brought back by the reflux and dispersed so we really need an explanation about which scenario is the most realistic and then once the risk is

known we can invest in prepare ourselves and then inform the population. this is all very fine but to have a discussion on a level playing field everyone must have access to the same sources of information on the one hand the army has opened its doors allowing us to film and answering our questions but on the other there is still the natural tendency to cover up. in france there is always this desire to keep everything secret that concerns defense. only the highest authorities with the highest clearance may have access to this information. for my show and we must understand but for that to happen we need to have access to the source of the information this part is absolutely necessary yes but on july the first two thousand and eight during a sleepy summer and under the veil of indifference the law was passed with serious

consequences for access to military archives the very principle of the in communicate ability of certain archives can only be considered in the most restrictive way that is to say only when absolutely necessary from this double point of view the solution that you propose during the first reading of this text a delay of one hundred years and a definition. more explicit all of the concerned archives archives will only be incommunicable if they concern the information that would allow the conception fabrication utilization localization of weapons of mass destruction the nuclear biological chemical or bacterial our commitment is to not use the archives to find out how to make a salad to put it simply i couldn't care less i don't care how about how to make a bomb that we simply want access to the information they have about the environment and the health of facts now it is time to listen to the voice of the house on the law presented who is for who is against the law is adopted minister it

is your turn to speak but i think that the culture of military suit is really very poisonous especially concerning the health risks and the risks to the environment was it as in the united states a commission exists which has been allowed access to these military archives for all these years where we can find all the information linked to the tests but doesn't contain the information about type of nuclear weapon that was tested wonder how to make such and such weapons work so that is not the goal of our involvement. which was initiated at that time. for thousands of polynesians who worked in material. profited from the windfall they received from mainland france they did so in secret it's difficult for them to keep the memories alive the veterans are gone taking their memories and their testimonies with them

history is starting to unravel and the younger generation has different worries and interests. they have never been talks between the french authorities and the local population over the thirty years of years atomic saga a large misunderstanding grew out of this and fostered the rift and bad feelings surrounding the top secret. told. when the territory was forced to concede in nine hundred sixty four it had been promised that morrow and find itself would be given back to its people once the tests of finished. the last test took place in january nine hundred ninety six and since then nothing had changed until january twenty twelfth on the relay in two thousand and five the investigation commission of the assembly of french polynesia asked the state to recognize the two types of consequences clean up the atolls and return them to their native population at the end of the plenary session on this monday the

sixteenth of january just a few days ago the assembly of french polynesia gave a favorable opinion with a large majority with regards to the presentation of the war it is then a big question that i asked the senate today and i asked them to happily follow me in the spirit of the retrocession of the two atolls we must give these to toss back . it is thanks to us that france became a powerful international figure thanks to our land on exist we exist and these islands exist our parents lived here and i think france owes the owners of more or a lot of the property that the. german i put this proposition to a vote who is in favor of adopting this law. who is against the proposition is therefore adopted as a law. it's only a small win for the senator only the first step in

a long legislative procedure which will see the bill presented to the national assembly. and while parliament did confirm the return of the land the much larger problem still remains that the one hundred seventy five aerial and underground tests in morocco have definitively condemned the at all of the big secret. i don't want to land back now it's poisoned. i don't want it back i simply want france to recognise the property rights of these islands this which are ours because we are the descendants of those who own them. there cannot be uncontrolled human activity for a very long term. and whatever happens it can. change

whatever is the destiny of the. next place whether we continue the discussion or stop talking about it altogether to the truth of that statement well much change. and nothing can change that. and i start there cannot be any uncontrolled human activity and this is a tour for the moment and it is the price. to be paid by sin a point of being. as france left us with now. nothing to they have left us with nothing but the boys in this. general de gaulle's said that the nuclear tests in war are serve the interests of peace to bring peace to the ward. pretty crazy what this piece brought with it will be on board the.

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