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Chirac responds to claims of ill-health from nuclear testing

French President Chirac says there's been no recorded incidence of any radiation levels - significantly higher than those which occur naturally - due to France's atomic blasting in the Pacific.
People from Mururoa and Fangataufa atolls have held protests during the President's visit, to demand France recognise the effects to health caused by the testing.
John Taroanui Doom, of Moruroa e Tatou, says "for two years we are asking to open the archives to know the truth on the problems of health of our people who were at Moruroa."
Meanwhile, the BBC reported a couple of months ago that recent tests of Afghani civilians have turned up with unusually high concentrations of non-depleted uranium isotopes in their urine. International monitors have called it almost conclusive evidence that the U.S. used a new kind of uranium-laced bomb in the Afghan war.