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France's President Emmanuel Macron wears a flowers leis and seashell necklaces gestures as he speaks up on his arrival as the mayor Manihi John Drollet stands next to him at the Manihi Atoll, 312 miles northeast of Tahiti, French Polynesia.

New study on nuclear testing in French Polynesia reveals France’s ‘censorship and secrecy’

Nuclear

More than 400 claims have been filed against the French government for nuclear tests on French Polynesia between 1966 and 1996. Scientists say about 110,000 people have been affected by radioactive fallout.

A man waves from inside a black car.

North Korea details plans to dismantle nuclear test site

Runit dome

Seawater is infiltrating a nuclear waste dump on a remote Pacific atoll

Environment
The Kakadu National Park uranium mining area.

To make and maintain America’s nukes, some communities pay the price

Conflict

The Race to Secure Kazakhstan’s ‘Plutonium Mountain’

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North Korea Conducts Most Powerful Nuclear Test Yet

North Korea conducted their third, and largest, nuclear test today, in a move that has provoked neighboring China and the rest of the world. Here’s an English translation of the announcement North Korean’s heard today: “The scientific field for National Defense has succeeded in the third underground nuclear test at a site in the north […]

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Baby Teeth Project

Commentator Suzanne Elston notes a new study that finds strontium-90 (STRON-tee-um), a carcinogenic by-product of nuclear reactions, is showing up in the teeth of children living near nuclear reactors. An earlier study, conducted during the Cold War which found strontium-90 in baby teeth, was attributed to nuclear test fallout.

Health Risks of Nuclear Power and Testing

The radioactive chemical strontium-90, is released during nuclear explosions and by nuclear power reactors. As it accumulates in bones and teeth, researchers have used baby teeth to track the link between this exposure and cancer.

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