Small Mururoa test carried out
PA Wellington France exploded a lowyield nuclear device at its underground test centre at Mururoa Atoll on March 7, the Seismological Observatory reported this week. Believed to be in the two-kiloton or three-kilo-ton range, the blast was monitored by the NewZealand station at Rarotonga. The superintendent of the observatory. Dr Warwick Smith, said the blast
could only be listed as probable. “We recorded what appears to have been the tail-end of a nuclear explosion.” he said. “The reason for the hesitancy is that the blast seems to have occurred as we were changing our recording sheet, something we have to do every 24 hours.” The explosion was not recorded in New Zealand, another indication of its low strength, said Dr Smith. It was the first Mururoa test, monitored this year.
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