Lyon (AFP) – Greenpeace activists said Tuesday they had flown a drone fitted out as a flying Superman into a nuclear energy plant in southeast France, aiming to show how the country’s reactors are vulnerable to terror attacks.
A video released by the environmental group shows the drone zipping through restricted airspace above the Bugey plant about 25 kilometres (16 miles) outside Lyon before crashing into a building on site.
It said the drone struck a storage pool for spent nuclear fuel next to a reactor, one of the most radioactive areas at the site.
“This is a highly symbolic action: it shows that spent fuel pools are very accessible, this time from the air, and therefore extremely vulnerable to attack,” Yannick Rousselet, head of Greenpeace France’s anti-nuclear campaign, in a statement.
French electricity group EDF played down any security risk, saying police forces had intercepted one of two drones launched by Greenpeace at dawn on Tuesday.
“The fuel building is key for security, designed in particular to withstand natural or accidental damage, which ensures its high degree of robustness,” the company said, adding that it would lodge a complaint with police. more
That was a gnat on an elephant’s ass. Actually, it’s less than that.
next up
starting the forest on fire to show how vulnerable it is to forest fires, right ?
Why not take the group out that launched the “drones” while they were high-fiving each other and eating cheese and beat the absolute living crap out of them. Make each minute seem like an hour. Break some bones and permanently give a bend to the nose. Don’t bother calling the cops. I’ll bet this group and any people they talk to will take up another form on non-violent protest. You don’t screw around with nukes.
Green peas is obviously still butt-hurt about France sinking their battleship, Rainbow Warrior.
Wake up! This was just a test.
Nah. Just a tantrum. These man buns and Lez twats couldn’t pull off a serious attack against a hardened nuke plant.
Since Green Peace did this as a demonstration of how vulnerable Nuclear Power plants are to terrorist attacks, I think the French Government needs a demonstration of how medieval they will get on your ass if you fly a drone over their power plant.
How about 10 years in prison, as a “symbolic reaction” Mr. Rousselet.
Hate to break it but the most vulnerable part of the power plants lay outside those fences and gates.
As far as the spent fuel canisters, well ASME has some strict rules for the design and fabrication of those things. Down side, NRC says you don’t have to follow those rules cus the plants were cryingthat it costs too much.
Label the whole organization as a terrorist outfit and pursue them to bankruptcy and prison.