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“since September of last year, France has resumed detonating nuclear bombs in coral atolls in the South Pacific, defying worldwide protests against this crime against nature and against the lives and welfare of some 27 million men, women, and children who live in the Pacific region. In deciding to resume nuclear testing, the French President Jacques Chirac promised the international community there would be no environmental consequences from their nuclear tests, as radioactive substances would not be discharged into the ocean and the surrounding areas. Mr. Speaker, despite the intense fears of millions of residents in the Pacific, France's nuclear bomb detonations over the past 30 years are laying the foundation for a major environmental tragedy like Chernobyl. The French Atomic Energy Agency has repeatedly stated that radioactive substances from their nuclear tests are trapped in the ground and there is no danger of radioactive contamination. Yesterday, France's big lie was revealed. After a Japanese newspaper broke the story yesterday, media reports confirm that France now acknowledges that radioactive materials have, indeed, leaked into the sea from their recent nuclear tests at Moruroa Atoll. Radioactive iodine-131, which is created by nuclear explosions and causes cancer in humans, was detected by French officials after the tests but was apparently covered up.”