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Observed French nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll
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UK government awarding medals to British Nuclear Test Veterans
In November 2022, the Government of the United Kingdom announced it would be awarding medals to all Commonwealth Armed Forces — or next of kin — involved in the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Test Programme…
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More entitlements and support for children of Jayforce and Mururoa veterans
Veterans’ Affairs has moved to ensure access to more support for the children of Jayforce and Mururoa veterans. Nuclear radiation is a risk that New Zealand service people have been exposed to on th…
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Commemoration of 50 years since HMNZS OTAGO sails to protest French nuclear tests
It was recently the 50th anniversary of New Zealand’s protests against nuclear testing in the Pacific. The Mururoa Nuclear Veterans Group Inc. hosted a commemoration of 50 years since the Mururo…
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Genetic counselling for children of Jayforce, Grapple, and Mururoa veterans
In 2023, New Zealand's independent Veterans' Health Advisory Panel commissioned a literature review on the health risks associated with nuclear exposure. Families of those who could have been expose…
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Research about New Zealand's nuclear veterans
Events, research, and reports are displayed chronologically from oldest to most recent. Jump to the most recent report Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the occupation of Japan Dropping of atom…
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Veterans' Health Advisory Panel
This panel is a statutory body established by section 254 of the Veterans' Support Act 2014. View the Veterans' Support Act 2014 (external link) The Panel: provides advice, comments, and gu…
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Literature review on the health impacts of exposure to ionising radiation
For veterans and their families of J-Force, Operation Grapple, and Mururoa. In April 2021 the Minister for Veterans asked the Veterans’ Health Advisory Panel to review the most up-to-date information…
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Conclusively presumed conditions
Whether we automatically accept the condition depends on: when and where you served, and what the condition is. There are four types of service that have conditions covered by a Presumpti…
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Public Advisory: Potential historic radiation exposure at McMurdo Station
As a part of Operation Deep Freeze, the U.S. Navy maintained a small nuclear power plant at the McMurdo Station, Antarctica, from 1962 to 1979. McMurdo Station and the site of the former power plant i…