Moruroa
Moruroa , also named wrongly Mururoa , is one of both Atoll S of French Polynésie, located in the Archipel of Tuamotu, which was used as place of experimentation for the French nuclear bombs (the other being Fangataufa).
The French nuclear tests with Moruroa caused local and international oppositions, and the July 10th 1985, the Rainbow Warrior , a boat of the organization ecologist Greenpeace on the way towards the atoll was cast with Auckland in New Zealand by agents of DGSE (French secret services), causing the death of the photographer Portuguese Fernando Pereira and provocant the Scandale of the business of the '' Rainbow Warrior ''. Whereas the France had observed for several years a Moratoire, the new French president Jacques Chirac (1995-2007) authorized a last trial run in 1995, before the ratification of the Traité complete prohibition of the nuclear tests. These tests gave place to a sharp international protest campaign going until the Boycott, with the countries of Oceania and the international organizations point some such Greenpeace.
The tests were definitively abandoned in 1996, with the profit of simulations in laboratory.
The geological evolution and radiological of the atoll since is supervised attentively by the French Army.
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