In 2010, the French government passed the Morin law ostensibly aimed at addressing the suffering of those significantly harmed by radiation during France's nuclear weapons detonations from 1960 ...

From the 1960s to the 1990s, France detonated almost 200 nuclear bombs in French Polynesia – a scattered Pacific island territory thousands of kilometres east of Australia – including 41 ...

The Rainbow Warrior’s very last voyage before the bombing was to evacuate the entire population of Rongelap atoll (about 320 people) in the Marshall Islands who had been exposed to US nuclear ...

Members of Grassy Narrows First Nation and Fort William First Nation led a group of protesters from neighbouring communities in a rally against the transportation and disposal of Canada's nuclear ...

Having been used for nuclear tests and dumping by the US and French, the Pacific islands deeply oppose Japan’s plan and see it as a ‘nuclear legacy’ issue.

For nearly five decades, more than 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste were dumped in the icy depths of the northeast Atlantic. Today, no one knows precisely where these barrels are located, or ...

In 1974, a radioactive cloud from a French nuclear test drifted over Teahupo’o, Tahiti, now the surfing venue for the Paris Games. Villagers still feel the effects.

Shaun Burnie, senior nuclear specialist at Greenpeace East Asia, said: "The Japanese government is desperate for international endorsement for its Pacific Ocean radioactive water dump plans.

Japan's policy of dumping nuclear-contaminated wastewater is the largest nuclear incident since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. ... and also involve the small islands in the South Pacific Ocean.

In 2010, the French government passed the Morin law ostensibly aimed at addressing the suffering of those significantly harmed by radiation during France’s nuclear weapons detonations from 1960 ...

Future of the test ban treaty. In January 1996, France conducted its last nuclear test by detonating a 120-kiloton bomb underground in the South Pacific. In September, France added its signature ...