Pressure is building on France to compensate more people in the South Pacific, who were exposed to radiation from three decades of nuclear tests.
It follows a new report accusing the French government of hiding the extent of nuclear contamination in French Polynesia during French nuclear tests in the Pacific from 1966-1996, with almost the "entire population" of the overseas territory infected.
Al Jazeera’s Nicola Gage reports.
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It follows a new report accusing the French government of hiding the extent of nuclear contamination in French Polynesia during French nuclear tests in the Pacific from 1966-1996, with almost the "entire population" of the overseas territory infected.
Al Jazeera’s Nicola Gage reports.
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