France compensates 150,000 victims of nuclear testing

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France compensates 150,000 victims of nuclear testing

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The French Government allocates an initial fund of 10 million euros for those affected by its past nuclear tests in the Algerian Sahara and Polynesia. The government has established a mechanism for fair compensation for some 150,000 military and civilian workers who could have been affected by nuclear tests performed between 1960 and 1966 in such French testing site as the Mururoa atoll.

An independent commission composed of doctors and chaired by a judge will consider each individual case. “Contrary to what happened so far, the plaintiff need not prove the causal link between radiation exposure and disease,” according to the defense minister who presented the draft of the law regulating the compensation process.

The French government believes that it is time to address an issue that French authorities have not wanted to tackle for years because according to them an “open door to compensation would be a threat to maintaining a credible nuclear deterrent.”

Between 1960 and 1966, France conducted a total of 210 nuclear tests in the Algerian Sahara and in the atolls of Mururoa and Fangataufa in Polynesia. 17 of these nuclear tests were done in the Algerian Sahara, starting in the middle of the Algerian War (1954-1962). 193 were carried out in French Polynesia. The French began developing the hydrogen bomb with a test range on the islands of Mururoa and Fangataufa.

The French military is said to currently have a nuclear arsenal of approximately 350 operational nuclear warheads, making it the third-largest in the world.

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Breanna Jones

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http://trendsupdates.com/france-compensates-150000-victims-of-nuclear-testing/

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Breanna Jones, “France compensates 150,000 victims of nuclear testing
,” Useless Archives, accessed March 28, 2024, https://useless.as.uky.edu/items/show/603.