French Polynesia's anti-nuclear Association 193 has regretted the lack of details in the 2021 report by the French nuclear compensation commission CIVEN.
Last week, the commission reported that in 2021 it paid out US$16.6 million to victims of France's nuclear weapons tests.
Picture taken in 1971, showing a nuclear explosion in Mururoa atoll. Photo: AFP
Although the payout was the biggest so far, the Association says the situation is still unsatisfactory as only 46 percent of the claims were accepted.
It says it would like to have access to the files of the cases concerning test site workers and other residents.
France tested its atomic weapons in French Polynesia from 1966 to 1996 after abandoning its testing regime in Algeria.
Until 2010 when a compensation law was passed, France had claimed that its weapons tests were clean and caused no harm to human health.
