Greenpeace flying protest exposes security risks of French nuclear site
Flamanville, Normandy, France June 1, 2006 – A Greenpeace protester
today took off in a powered parachute, a “pego-jet”, within the 3km air
exclusion zone around the Flamanville nuclear plant in Normandy, France.
The activist was protesting plans by Electricite de France (EDF) to
build a large European Pressurized Water Reactor (EPR) at the site ; he
came within 300m of the two reactors currently operating (...)