Greenpeace penetrates French nuclear plant

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2011/12/201112514312118302.html

Al Jazeera English
December 5, 2011

Greenpeace activists secretly entered a French nuclear site before dawn 
and draped a banner reading "Coucou" and "Facile", (meaning "Hey" and 
"Easy") on its reactor containment building, to expose the vulnerability 
of atomic sites in the country.

Police, whom the environmental activist group immediately told of the 
publicity stunt, took several hours to round up nine intruders who had 
broken into the power plant in Nogent-sur-Seine, about 95km southeast of 
Paris, on Monday.

Greenpeace said the break-in aimed to show that an ongoing review of 
safety measures, ordered by French authorities after a tsunami ravaged 
Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant earlier this year, was focused 
too narrowly on possible natural disasters, and not human factors.

"With this nonviolent action, Greenpeace has shown how vulnerable French 
nuclear plants are," said Sophia Majnoni d'Intignano, a Greenpeace 
activist.

Activists who tried to enter three other French nuclear sites, in a 
co-ordinated action on the same day, were prevented from doing so, but 
Greenpeace said other invaders were still holed up inside other, 
unspecified, nuclear sites.

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