Laurent Sturm & Lis Kayser - Nuclear Paradise. Hao, French Polynesia
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In Hao, French nuclear history is still part of the present. In the middle of the Pacific, more than 15,000 kilometers from Europe, the atoll currently has just over 1,000 inhabitants.
Between 1966 and 1996, Hao played a central role in the French nuclear testing program in French Polynesia. Located about 920 kilometers from Tahiti, the main island, and 450 kilometers from the Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls, where the nuclear tests took place, Hao became an advanced base for the French army's Pacific Experimentation Center (CEP). Nuclear devices were assembled and stored there; aircraft and personnel were decontaminated; and radioactive samples were analyzed. This military presence profoundly transformed the atoll and its population, which grew rapidly as residents arrived from mainland France and neighboring archipelagos. Hao developed as a dynamic local center, structuring community life for decades.
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Exhibition at Nei Liicht Art Center, Dudelange. Reception by Marlène Kreins, guided tour in French by Lis Kayser. The visit will be followed at 3:45 p.m. by "Le miroitement des idées" by Aline Forçain at the Dominique Lang Art Center. Catherine de Jamblinne will welcome the Friends of Museums for this visit.
Automatically translated from French.
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