Activists arrested for nuke power plant stunt
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July 16, 2013, Tuesday
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GREENPEACE activists occupied a French nuclear power plant site before dawn yesterday - a media stunt deeply embarrassing to the government, which is intent on demonstrating that France's reliance on nuclear power is safe.
Around 30 activists from the environmental group invaded state-owned nuclear power utility Electricite de France's Tricastin power plant complex in southern France. They projected a video on the side of one of the plant's buildings that said "Tricastin Nuclear Accident" and showed the image of a giant crack forming across the building's facade.
Activists also hung a giant banner with President Francois Hollande's face and the words "President of the Catastrophe?"
France's nuclear safety authority said in a statement that so far the intrusion had no impact on the plant's safety.
By mid-afternoon, all of the activists had been arrested and were being held in a nearby police station, Greenpeace France said on its website.
Hollande said France "is very much attached to nuclear safety," and that everything was being done "to assure us that this nuclear safety is absolutely respected."
Nuclear reactors produce about 80 percent of France's electricity.
Around 30 activists from the environmental group invaded state-owned nuclear power utility Electricite de France's Tricastin power plant complex in southern France. They projected a video on the side of one of the plant's buildings that said "Tricastin Nuclear Accident" and showed the image of a giant crack forming across the building's facade.
Activists also hung a giant banner with President Francois Hollande's face and the words "President of the Catastrophe?"
France's nuclear safety authority said in a statement that so far the intrusion had no impact on the plant's safety.
By mid-afternoon, all of the activists had been arrested and were being held in a nearby police station, Greenpeace France said on its website.
Hollande said France "is very much attached to nuclear safety," and that everything was being done "to assure us that this nuclear safety is absolutely respected."
Nuclear reactors produce about 80 percent of France's electricity.
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