I was thinking of visiting Bora Bora for a vacation ( maybe even a honeymoon :) ), but was worried about background radiation from all the French nuclear testing which has been going on in that region.

Is there any data to support or falsify this thought?

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Is there any data to support or falsify this thought?

The radiation doses currently received by populations in the South Pacific region as a result of the residual radioactive materials remaining in Mururoa and Fangataufa are negligible fractions of natural background levels, and will continue to be so in the long term. The Study thus concluded that there would not be any health effects, either medically detectable in an individual or epidemiologically discernible in a population group, that could be attributable to radiation exposure due to the residual radioactive materials remaining at the atolls.

There is no record of prolonged habitation on either atoll. The nearest inhabited place - the atoll of Tureia, with about 120 residents - is 130 km away. Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia (which has a total population of 220,000), is over 1000 km from Mururoa, and New Zealand is some 5,000 km away.

The radiation doses currently received by populations in the South Pacific region as a result of the residual radioactive materials remaining in Mururoa and Fangataufa are negligible fractions of natural background levels, and will continue to be so in the long term. The Study thus concluded that there would not be any health effects, either medically detectable in an individual or epidemiologically discernible in a population group, that could be attributable to radiation exposure due to the residual radioactive materials remaining at the atolls.

There is no record of prolonged habitation on either atoll. The nearest inhabited place - the atoll of Tureia, with about 120 residents - is 130 km away. Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia (which has a total population of 220,000), is over 1000 km from Mururoa, and New Zealand is some 5,000 km away.

Do you have a link to this IAEA report, please?

I really enjoyed our 10 days on Bora Bora. I think one of the best things was being able to read by the glow of my partner after about 4 days.;)

Seriously...thousands of people visit the area every year with no ill effects. Besides, I think it has been quite a few years since any surface test occured anywhere in the Pacific.

The only burn you're likely to get is from the sun and the prices!

Do you have a link to this IAEA report, please?

http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Booklets/mururoabook.html