Greenpeace Storms EDF Nuclear Power Plant in Eastern France
Source: Bloomberg
Police arrested dozens of anti-nuclear campaigners after they entered France’s oldest atomic plant, operator Electricite de France SA (EDF) said.
More than 60 Greenpeace protesters stormed the site at Fessenheim near the German border before dawn and unfurled a banner that read “Stop Risking Europe,” the organization said. Some used ladders to scale fences. Fifty-seven were arrested.
“The event didn’t have an impact on safety at the installation,” the French atomic-energy regulator Autorite de Surete Nucleaire said in a statement. An EDF spokesman said there was no effect on power production because the intruders didn’t access electricity generating areas.
Greenpeace and EDF are at odds over power output in France, the world’s most nuclear-dependent country. Following security breaches by activists in 2011 and 2012, EDF set aside at least 400 million euros ($556 million) to tighten defenses at its 19 plants including fences, dogs and electronic surveillance.
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