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Greenpeace Activists Sneak into French Nuclear Power Plant Dozens of Greenpeace activists sneaked into a nuclear power plant in eastern France at dawn Tuesday in the latest break-in by the environmental group to highlight alleged security weaknesses at atomic facilities. The activists broke into the Fessenheim plant and hung a banner reading Stop risking Europe on the side of one of its reactors to denounce the risk of French nuclear power for the whole of Europe, the group said in a statement. A spokesman for state-run power firm EDF, which runs the plant, said it was functioning normally despite the break-in. These actions will not have any impact on the working of the plant which is functioning normally, the spokesman said. Police had detained 56 activists, he said, but 20 remained on top of the dome of one of the reactors as a police helicopter hovered above. naharnet/stories/en/123004-greenpeace-activists-sneak-into-french-nuclear-power-plant
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:11:53 +0000

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