What the records say
- When
- 1 May 1962
- Kind
- Industrial accident
- Coordinates
- 24.06° N, 5.04° E
- Description
- accident nucléaire de Béryl dans le Sahara algérien, à In Ecker, dans le Tan Afella.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Béryl (essai nucléaire).
Béryl incident
French nuclear test, #6, in Algerian Sahara in 1962
The "Béryl incident" was a French nuclear test, conducted on 1 May 1962, during which nine soldiers of the 621st Groupe d'Armes Spéciales unit were heavily contaminated by radioactivity. The test took place at In Eker, Algeria, then a French department, and was designed as an underground shaft test.
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