Béatrice Airuarii Mou Sang Teinauri, half Polynesian and half Chinese, was born in 1977 during France's nuclear testing period in French Polynesia. Between 1966 and 1974, the tests were conducted in the air, and then underground until 1998. Many people in Béatrice's family have cancer. Strangely, both her mother and herself were affected by myeloid leukemia, acute for her mother and chronic for her. Her mother passed away in 2014 at the age of 55 and was easily recognized as a victim of France's nuclear testing. Béatrice's battle against the disease was long and painful. She was 35 years old and pregnant with her first and only child when her chronic leukemia was discovered. Béatrice opposed the doctors who wanted to interrupt her pregnancy to treat her with chemotherapy. Thanks to an elderly hematologist close to retirement, she was able to keep her child and receive effective treatment for her chronic myeloid leukemia which is still in remission. Her son is doing well. In 2017, Béatrice embarked on a long battle with French institutions to be recognized as a victim of nuclear testing. After a series of failures, she finally won and was recognized as a victim of nuclear testing in February 2022.
Béatrice Airuarii tells her life story, which is that of many Polynesians after France's nuclear testing in French Polynesia.