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Murky history of Australia’s exposure to radiation from French nuclear tests

Prime Minister Whitlam sent HMAS Supply to witness the French Tests. A Royal New Zealand Naval vessel also took position and watched. Thus more ANZAC nuke vets were created by the exposures they suffered…….The same mistakes which caused the Black Mist incident and all other incidents in Australia to go unreported in the 1950s were still in play in the 1970s…………

Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog, 19 May, 2010, On 22 July 1973 French atmospheric nuclear testing recommenced at Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific. The Australian AIRAC Report No. 1 of May 1974 gives the dates the Australian government believed the nuclear blasts took place:1. 22 July 1973. 2. 29 July 1973. 3. 19 August 1973. 4. 25 August 1973. 5. 29 August 1973. These blasts were considered secret by France. That country made no announcement in regard to these tests.Prime Minister Whitlam sent HMAS Supply to witness the French Tests. A Royal New Zealand Naval vessel also took position and watched. Thus more ANZAC nuke vets were created by the exposures they suffered…….
Prior to the French test series of 73, (France had been conducting atmospheric nuclear tests at Mururoa since the 1960s with complete disregard to the Limited Test Ban Treaty, which forbade atmospheric nuclear testing) the Whitlam government… set about preparing to record the impact of French Fallout as it arrived in Australia. The peak body for this, NRAC, was under heavy influence from Prof Titterton…..

AIRAC report No. 1 of May 1974 found among other things:
Fallout fission products that could only have come from the French tests were very soon detected in Australian air and milk.

AIRAC fails to report that milk in Queensland was thrown away due to ”excessive” levels of radio Iodine. None the less this is the case……………

The same mistakes which caused the Black Mist incident and all other incidents in Australia to go unreported in the 1950s were still in play in the 1970s…………

Helen Caldicott fought for and succeeded in obtaining the monitoring data for South Australia’s drinking water undertaken during the period of the 1970s French nuclear Tests. Years later, at the request of nuclear veterans National Secretary Terry Toon, I requested the same data for the period from the British nuclear tests on………nuclearhistory « Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog

May 19, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, secrets and lies, uranium | aboriginal, antinuclear, Australia, cancer, nuclear, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radioactive, secrets and lies, uranium