Greenpeace activists break into French nuclear plant

[kristopher]

Greenpeace activists break into French nuclear plant
By Michael Mainville (AFP) – 4 hours ago

PARIS — Activists from environmental group Greenpeace managed to sneak into a nuclear power plant near Paris on Monday in a move they said highlighted the dangers posed by France's reliance on atomic energy.

Police confirmed the intrusion and said activists had tried to break into two other nuclear sites in the south of France.

French energy giant EDF, which runs the nuclear plants that France relies on for 75 percent of its energy, sought to play down the incident, saying the activists at the plant near Paris had been detected but a decision made not to immediately intercept them.

EDF said activists had unfurled banners at two other sites but did not specify whether they had managed to enter the nuclear plants.

In a statement...

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[ensho]

1. good

nt

[kristopher]

2. Most of the French want to move away from nuclear. Is Sarkozy calling them mad?

French president clings to nuclear energy despite post-Fukushima fears, waste protests
By Associated Press, Published: November 25

PIERRELATTE, France — French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday it would be madness to reduce his country’s huge reliance on nuclear power, despite worldwide wariness after Japan’s Fukushima disaster and protests this week over the dangers of waste.

As countries — including neighboring Germany — renounce nuclear energy in the wake of the tsunami-triggered meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant earlier this year, France has remained a bastion of atomic power. France depends on it for three-quarters of its electricity, more than any other country.

Sarkozy, expected to run for re-election in April against a leftist who wants to shut down French reactors, argued that abandoning nuclear energy would destroy jobs and cost billions that France cannot afford as it strains to rein in debts and reduce unemployment at nearly 10 percent.

“We do not have the right to break with the political consensus of the last 65 years at the risk of destroying jobs in French industry. It’s madness,” the conservative president told workers at a glass factory in southern France. He said reducing nuclear power would be a “catastrophe.”...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/french-president-clings-to-nuclear-energy-despite-post-fukushima-fears-waste-protests/2011/11/25/gIQAFUoQvN_story.html

[Bob Wallace]

3. Missed an opportunity...

They could have just walked past the sleeping guards at many of our US reactors....

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/02/eveningnews/main3447744.shtml

"Too Safe to Meter" - HS