Bases To Monitor French Tests
(New Zealand Press Association)
WELLINGTON, March 10. New Zealand’s network of monitoring stations for the planned French nuclear tests in the Pacific will use a number of bases pre-
viously used to monitor British and American
tests, the director of Laboratories (Dr. G.
“However, different test location means different circumstances and our new network under review will be based to give us the maximum amount of information.” Dr. Roth said that beyond this he preferred not to comment, as monitoring arrangements would soon be reviewed by the Government.
New Zealand last monitored nuclear tests in 1962 when the Americans experimented on Christmas Island.
A report subsequently published from station findings gave the test “a clean bill of health.” Since 1962, New Zealand
he National Radiation I. Roth) said today.
has maintained stations in the Pacific at Rarotonga and Fiji where fall-out is analysed. France’s proposed nuclear tests set down for later this year will be on Moruroa Island, about 780 miles southeast of Tahiti.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31006, 11 March 1966, Page 12
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