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French Greenpeace activists break into nuclear power plant
French Greenpeace activists break into nuclear power plant
Campaigners demand closure of EDF's Tricastin plant, calling it one of France's most dangerous
Reuters and Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
guardian.co.uk, Monday 15 July 2013 03.40 EDT
A protest message projected on to the Tricastin nuclear plant by Greenpeace. Photograph: Micha Patault/AFP/Getty Images
More than 20 Greenpeace activists climbed fences to break into an EDF nuclear power plant in southern France and demanded its closure, the environmental campaign group has said.
The activists, dressed in red, broke into the Tricastin plant at dusk on Sunday and unfurled a yellow and black banner on the wall with the words: "Tricastin, nuclear accident – president of the catastrophe?" above a picture of the president, François Hollande.
"With this action, Greenpeace is asking François Hollande to close the Tricastin plant, which is among the five most dangerous in France," Yannick Rousselet, in charge of nuclear issues for Greenpeace France, said in a statement.
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The Tricastin plant, one of the most important sites in France, is spread over 650 hectares in picturesque south-east France. In July 2008, an accident at a treatment centre next to the plant saw liquid containing untreated uranium overflow out of a faulty tank during a draining operation. The same month around 100 staff at Tricastin's nuclear reactor number four were contaminated by radioactive particles that escaped from a pipe. EDF, which runs the site, described the contamination as "slight"...
Campaigners demand closure of EDF's Tricastin plant, calling it one of France's most dangerous
Reuters and Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
guardian.co.uk, Monday 15 July 2013 03.40 EDT
A protest message projected on to the Tricastin nuclear plant by Greenpeace. Photograph: Micha Patault/AFP/Getty Images
More than 20 Greenpeace activists climbed fences to break into an EDF nuclear power plant in southern France and demanded its closure, the environmental campaign group has said.
The activists, dressed in red, broke into the Tricastin plant at dusk on Sunday and unfurled a yellow and black banner on the wall with the words: "Tricastin, nuclear accident – president of the catastrophe?" above a picture of the president, François Hollande.
"With this action, Greenpeace is asking François Hollande to close the Tricastin plant, which is among the five most dangerous in France," Yannick Rousselet, in charge of nuclear issues for Greenpeace France, said in a statement.
...
The Tricastin plant, one of the most important sites in France, is spread over 650 hectares in picturesque south-east France. In July 2008, an accident at a treatment centre next to the plant saw liquid containing untreated uranium overflow out of a faulty tank during a draining operation. The same month around 100 staff at Tricastin's nuclear reactor number four were contaminated by radioactive particles that escaped from a pipe. EDF, which runs the site, described the contamination as "slight"...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/15/french-greenpeace-activists-nuclear-power
