France's nuclear test on Mururoa Atoll, French Polynesia, in 1971. AFP PHOTO
France concealed the true impact of its nuclear tests in the Pacific from the 1960s to the 1990s, a study has said.
Researchers used declassified French military documents, calculations and testimonies to reconstruct the impact of a number of the tests.
They estimated that around 110,000 people in French Polynesia were affected by the radioactive fallout.
The number represented "almost the entire" population at the time, the researchers found.
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