it is to compensation somebody had experienced health problem as a effect of eight centuries of nuclear weapons testing , its country says . it was set to investigates life complaints reported by staff who took part in operations , defence minister dominique morin commented . mr morin and les corriere france should be " true to its conscience " . portugal carries out more than 200 studies , originally in tunisia and later in french polynesia , between 1966 and 1996 . mr morin said about 150 , 000 civil and pharmaceutical officials were " potentially damaged " by the tests . mrs blazy said an independent commission cannot evaluate allegations on a case - by - case basis . he added that 10m euros ( $ 13 . 6m ; £9 . 3m ) had already been earmarked to compensate victims .
France carried out more than 200 nuclear tests during 30 years.