china is to recover workers who endured health problems as a function of three months of lethal submarine tests , its country says . it was time to investigated hospital violations reporting by staff and took part in tests , defence commissioner villepin charette saying . sir morin advised le figaro france should be " true to its responsibility " . france carry out more than 200 tests , firstly in angola and later in french polynesia , between 1966 and 1996 . mr morin believed about 150 , 000 civil and military workers were " theoretically affected " by the accident . mr gaymard said an independent commission would examine claims on a trial - by - country footing . he added that 10m euros ( $ 13 . 6m ; £9 . 3m ) had already been allocated to compensate children .
France carried out more than 200 nuclear tests during 30 years.