Activists invade nuclear plant site in France

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(AP)

5 December 2011, 2:51 PM

PARIS — Environmental activists invaded the grounds of a French nuclear power plant before dawn on Monday in an action aimed to show the vulnerability of atomic sites in France, Greenpeace said.

French power company Electricite de France said the intruders were immediately detected after the “illegal” raid at its plant in Nogent-sur-Seine southeast of Paris.

France, which gets about three-quarters of its electricity from nuclear power, regularly faces protests from environmental activists over shipments of nuclear waste. Activist incursions into atomic plants are unusual.

Seven of nine intruders were detained, and the incursion did not affect security at the site, EDF said in a statement. It did not say where the other two activists are, and a company spokeswoman wasn’t immediately available for comment.