The women of French Polynesia disproportionately bear the burden of France’s 30-year history of nuclear testing – both as victims and as caregivers. But they are also among those fighting for ...

Three decades after France’s last nuclear tests, those living near the test sites still await compensation for the harms caused.

Fives Nordon has secured a contract from EDF to build 300 pieces of boilermaking equipment for six new French nuclear ...

The trip was also designed to underline the French government’s support for Polynesians and heal wounds over French nuclear testing on the former colony’s atolls, half a planet away from Paris.

It conducted atmospheric nuclear tests in Algeria up until 1962 when they won their independence. Consequently, France began testing in French Polynesia in 1966 instead, and by 1974, had moved to ...

France conducted 193 nuclear tests over three decades in French Polynesia until former president Jacques Chirac ended the programme in the 1990s amid an international protest campaign. In 2016, former ...

Between 1966 and 1996, France conducted nearly 200 nuclear "tests" on the atolls of Moruroa and Fangataufa, spreading radiation into the ocean and the atmosphere. Now, activist and politician Hina ...

France may be facing tens of thousands of compensation claims after a new study found that the impact of the country’s nuclear testing in French Polynesia in the 1960s and 1970s has been vastly ...

In total, France carried out 17 nuclear tests between 1960 and 1967, 11 in military installations earmarked for French use after the country gained independence in 1962.

The women of French Polynesia disproportionately bear the burden of France’s 30-year history of nuclear testing – both as victims and as caregivers. But they are also among those fighting for ...

France's history of nuclear tests. Chirac's June 1995 announcement, followed by the first new detonation in September that year, provoked intense opposition from environmental and peace groups ...

President Emmanuel Macron has reasserted France’s presence in the Pacific on a visit to French Polynesia aimed in part at countering growing Chinese dominance in the region.