yet this is a day that could go down in history nearly as you deny the environmental damage throughout the oceanic in particular in french polynesia just to deny a part of every polynesians identity depriving them of their land and their environment is to deprive them of part of themselves the guy who this stone comes from or. sits and this is exactly what all of this is about this afternoon nothing else this is more. let's visualize the forty one flashes in the thermonuclear explosions in the middle of the sky should move above more money for magnificent said some of your predecessors minister. stewards visualize again the one hundred thirty one underground explosions and

underwater blasts one hundred twenty three of which were and more atolls minister my dear colleagues if i offered you this stone would you feel safe placing it under the pillow of your loved ones every night or wouldn't you at least like to have a choice know that they're none of the parents and none of their children had this choice. after the first nuclear tests in nine hundred sixty in the midst of the algerian uprising france needed to find new frontiers as empty and as barren as the algerian desert. three years later from society to continue its atomic saga in polynesia. for the principles and conditions the circumstances that have led us here have determined that we need to equip ourselves with at tomic force. and then we stand by the

decision which we have come to school streets of build and if required to use our own atomic force. that same year a member of the territorial council on his way to paris was summoned to the lose a palace to testify. general the goal spoke very little of polynesia and he didn't tell me about the two atolls. enough he underlined the need to get to work it was urgent we had to act quickly. recently for him the experiments had to take place and go well. for this they needed vast open spaces remote and sparsely inhabited french polynesia was just that a large area bigger than europe the need didn't know was that two years earlier in one nine hundred sixty one topographic surveys had already been carried out. at

one point he might have seen that i was embarrassed that i was questioning myself and i didn't even have time to talk see he told me that if it didn't go well there could have been a fair because he would declare that french polynesia would become a military territory they're. just a big good i knew that fred the state would take it by force i knew where end it would come to it was too important for friends and for to go from here. on february the six nine hundred sixty four the territorial assembly of polynesia buckled under pressure and approved the general's decision as a result to little known atolls and for tougher were taken over by the state and became defacto military zones and there were no grounds upon which to claim ownership of those assholes your car owners were still there so this at least have some courtesy as the below thing to do is ask their own is if you can move in if

not ok will have a discussion around the table but hear nothing they moved in by force or force out with no regard for us whatsoever. the reason given by the government was the launch of the crucial pacific experimentation center project. because c.p.s. started being built the mud things got moving and tempers were caught on me. we were heading towards profit. when profit of promotion. to goal wanted a credible nuclear deterrent it was a priority and nobody questioned the costs involved a few months later. a true show of france's military power. everyone was overjoyed to get within

a few years the traditional culture would have completely disappeared. but. soon hundreds of workers were hired and rushed in from all over polynesia. a camp was built to house up to four thousand people four hundred fifty kilometers to the north the i told of how they came the largest tickle hub of the experimentation center. forty five years later the daily hustle and bustle is nothing but a distant memory only rundown remains like this problem to bear witness to its former glory. the buzzing operation that once employed two thousand five hundred people has become nothing more than a ghost town. one

hundred ninety three blasts took place over the thirty years of the pollen easy and nuclear project throughout this time the official position has always remained the same everything is under control and the tests are safe. we were always very poorly informed about these things we recognised what happened in. nagasaki and we knew what had happened during different american english experiments but we didn't realize what it represented and what it would represent for us it is true that at the time scientists really had no way of knowing for sure and were guided by little more than intuition especially when it came to such an important factor as wind direction which determined whether they would proceed with the test. in the nine hundred sixty s. we didn't have numerical models of weather predictions so we used radio signals at

about fifteen sites here the radio signals detected a balloon and by the location of the balloon and we could see the wind altitudes and then we mapped out these fifteen points and once we knew the different altitude levels of the wind the weather forecasters could use the maps to figure out the distribution of different winds in the area that. understand the spread of particles that were possibly contaminated with the c p had developed a forecasting model but these models were relatively simple more than they predicted a certain subject so we had a lot of faith in this trajectory that we now know that the atmosphere was far more chaotic than the margin for error was much bigger than we believed so we must take into account these uncertainties that can after a few hours in fact reach several hundred kilometers. based on evidence from the

first experiment on july the second one nine hundred sixty six the mushroom cloud didn't follow the predicted trajectory at all it quickly reached the gumby archipelago and a few hours later learned of along with it six hundred inhabitants today we would call this collateral damage it would be forty years before we found out the truth buried in a document classified as top secret of the time. mangere riva reads a level of ten billion. hour and half an hour and asked for information face to face from the local authorities. it might be necessary to reduce the real figures so as not to lose the trust of the people who realized that something had been hidden from them after the first blast. to general de gaulle know the truth was it hidden from him as well whatever the case this is what he had to say a few weeks later in tahiti. as you know all of the arrangements that have been

made. disadvantage whatsoever also the dear people. it wasn't until the publication of an official document in two thousand and six that the full extent of the nuclear fallout in french polynesia was revealed. the ministry of defense recorded more than one hundred eighty incidents of nuclear fallout during atmospheric testing from nine hundred sixty six to nine hundred seventy four however this was absolutely useless how did they come to this figure what data was it based on what scientific criteria we used reports from a nine hundred seventy four blast in tahiti located in one thousand two hundred kilometers from showed that only a part of the island was affected. however thirty eight years later in feb twenty twelfth the entire island is considered to have been affected by the radioactive cloud that didn't follow the predicted

trajectory. no less serious attitude has been to take us for idiots and then make those that are an idiot seem like idiots we were told long ago that the french nuclear trials were clean said they'd never had any problems will all the russians were funny guys the americans were funny the great ish were they kept saying these things they thought that we were a bit dead waited. i don't know if it is it but we've studied sid we know how to read and follow and we inform ourselves of what happens around the world to schools we discuss the talk of a colonial power and meaning and still hasn't decided whether to discredit us or to just be totally complacent towards us is also honestly got.

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a one million people come to. a market. in an attempt to make amends the government took steps to raise all traces of the nuclear testing on the island of man to reva their nuclear shelter which in reality was nothing more than an ordinary where house covered in metal was demolished a few years ago nevertheless twenty three cases of contamination have been recognized officially. headed for how. is the island of the harbor it's the third largest atoll in polynesia which was chosen as the advanced support base from iraq four hundred fifty kilometers away. the base was dismantled in two thousand and since then the inhabitants have resumed a quiet and peaceful life. but the army returned in two thousand and nine for a large scale cleanup operation that will take seven years and sixteen million

euros to complete. it's not going to be an easy task to restore the nature to its pristine condition. in an attempt to distance itself from its reputation the army is trying to be open about the ambitious operation. i don't i don't i thought we're entering into an area where things have been buried underground you know we can see that the first phase of research has been carried out on meaning that the company or has already dug up soil to take test samples. a piece so effectively by doing this first stage of research we can see the scraps of metal poking out of phosphate france must turn this page in its history we finished the nuclear tests we want to turn the page we want everything to be clean and tidy so that we can get back and move on to the park. that's all it comes down to if we carried out trials we learned a lot from it not just about the nuclear bomb but also concerning the world of

health up until that time we used methods of a bygone era there's no shame in saying that at the time we worked in a certain way today the constraints are a lot more sensitive so we're required to pay attention to the environment we're adapting and it's only out of this necessity to the depths that we're doing this work properly. and how you've got to remember that there was medically activity. it was the advanced support base for more at the time of the aerial trials so radioactive materials were handled. there were vulture planes stationed there it circulated the radioactive clouds to gather samples and everything was analyzed in how the boats that were contaminated in mara and frank were brought to how french decontamination there was to see a lab which analyzed all radioactive substances so it was in a town where

a lot of radioactivity was handle it. especially those that were heavily contaminated and were brought here by military jets during the eight years of atmospheric testing the vultures came to this particular area where we had four stations where they could be decontaminated off it was a simple method wearing full protective clothing cleaner sprayed the aircraft with an emulsion so that all of the radioactive particles that they collected fell to the floor. these were then collected and brought back in a settling tank and the rest of the emulsion which was then free from radioactivity was rolled by a worker into the ocean just behind us. of course. all this was done under it. controls. and there were samples taken

regularly to ensure that everything going into the ocean was clean. but all these procedures sufficient to guarantee that the fish the staple diet of polynesia is safe for the inhabitants of how to consume this task requires an independent laboratory responsible for monitoring radioactivity in the whole of polynesia both in the year and in the food chain what. about. the period of atmospheric testing if we had these after effects that impacted directly on the entire southern hemisphere because then assume as the test stopped they quickly descended on the polynesian islands and the battles around morrow and particular coral and most of the earth which contains coral didn't retain any of the radioactivity so anything that was dumped on the ground was washed away mostly by rain into the sea today even in how you remember there were a lot of decontamination labs etc if you look for radioactivity in the earth you

will find it was there at a given moment but it's since been washed away so these whereas in areas where the earth contains organic matter radioactivity is retained the. area in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine before the utah was put back in the hands of the territory there were precautionary measures in check. for example in this noticeable area. which allow analyses to be taken from the bottom to see the infiltration that there might be between the two concrete slabs. these core samples were sent back to the mainland and the results were collected. afterwards compiling the results we were able to see the exact spot where there was radioactive. mission. and we would see that this emission was tiny less

than you might find the lender now in britain little. here we can effectively know everything about the area around the legionnaires fifty four and regiment camp i could see the green zone show that there's no pollution whereas the red zone show that pollution has been detected in the lead hydrocarbons. in. different times different customs. it would seem that the army has now developed an environmental conscience . in this pilot project the restoration of one hundred eighty five is an opportunity to apply new technologies like using bacteria to digest the many chemical residues.

students seem unconcerned their teachers are wary and have countless questions on this if first piece we don't know what happened here with a ocean and the lake let's not forget what's been bird in the earth here. from what i have seen a lot of things have been removed. but there may be things that we haven't been told about. it's true that when we ask questions like what's been put in the lake in the ocean in the earth many people don't trust pond sincerely both is a sad one. they're all see all come with administration is scared as we all are i believe that there is waste in the lake yet yet in the shade of them it seems there are tankers tracks normally you've got to take. you know when people hear that fish comes from how they get because there.

isn't but. the fish from hell and. many people have the idea that things are being hidden from us so as soon as you mention the word nuclear there is an immediate suspicion of lies i think that today we're moving away from this way of thinking and people are able to understand this before needed to be explained a little more and the people were capable of getting their heads around it in the days of nuclear trials the word environment didn't exist for season lagoons were simply considered to be the most practical garbage dumps concrete scrap metal holes of airplanes or trucks were all just thrown in without so much as a second thought to all the waste that was dumped in the lake was not radioactive waste that was maybe polluting like batteries or hydrocarbons which were still in

vehicles per se it's more immediately put in the lake so in two thousand and eight in fact there had already been a first sighting of such waste so every habitation project was immediately organized by the country and the community to get rid of all this waste and all the dangerous debris and the batteries would obviously be taken out without any doubt then material like bits of concrete and it would be done in open view of the country's watch to see that everything was taken out properly and it's got to be seen that life is resumed on top of the waste that the coral is regrown. badly affect the ecosystem or the environment especially if it's and there's no risk involved in getting it out. reassuring speech from a person tasked with p.r. . the cauchy pass which is what we call the hotel area an area in deep immersion. and particularly the there are one hundred tons of radioactive waste which were put

there in the form of drums that went all the way down to the bottom. this is a designated area and another area there was some scrap metal which could be regularly seen slightly emerged in the ocean. these are two identified zones or. elsewhere we regularly see strong swirls where bits of metal emerge and wash up on shore like they have all this will be got rid of and we'll find areas where we can put it the radioactive waste in the hotels will stay there they will be touched as it's not part of the rehabilitation project. and so they were buried in pits one thousand five hundred to two thousand meters deep. in total five hundred seventy tons of contaminated waste including the famous airplanes thrown into the great blue sea. of more concern for the government was a report published in january twenty seventh but at the very least signals trouble

ahead. the atomic energy commission to document included a computer simulation of the possible collapse of part of morrow at olds crown. hardly surprising considering that one hundred thirty seven blasts took place there . the principle of underground testing is simple the nuclear charges placed in a well dug in between six hundred and one thousand meters deep after the explosion the rock becomes fused which is supposed to keep the radioactivity contained. the power of the explosion caused a mini earthquake which is clearly visible from the footage taken by controlled cameras. taking into account the twenty eight tests it is the north eastern zone of the at all that is in. greatest danger. if the mass estimated to be about six

hundred seventy million cubic meters in size which a collapse it would cause a fifteen to twenty meter high wave followed by a tsunami. is around one hundred kilometers away travelling at six hundred kilometers per hour the wave would reach the ayatollah in just ten minutes. to read so close to motorola so far from the haiti twelve hundred kilometers away.

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