Twenty-six Greenpeace activists were arrested Friday morning on the site of the Tricastin nuclear power plant (Drôme), after having introduced themselves there to demand its closure due to its "obsolescence", we learned from sources concordant. Shortly before 7 a.m., several dozen activists took over various "non-strategic" points on the nuclear site, said spokesman for the Drôme prefecture.
Mostly made up of workers in a fictitious industrial dismantling company, the activists mimicked the dismantling of the plant at the visitors' entrance with the help of small construction machines, drums marked with the nuclear symbol, giant hammers and wheelbarrows, as shown in photos posted on Greenpeace France's Twitter account.
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This morning, at 7.20 am, activists from @greenpeacefr broke into the #Tricastin site.
Their objective ? Warn about the aging of this nuclear power plant and demand its closure as soon as possible.
👉 https://t.co/S5FAiV1177 #StopTricastin pic.twitter.com/a1N8Twlhnx
"40 years is the maximum duration for which nuclear power plants were designed"
In addition, several panels hung on the gates of an entrance to the site indicated "permit to dismantle", while banners described the plant as "Cracked, outdated, to dismantle". Shortly before 9 a.m., the gendarmes calmly arrested two groups of 12 and 14 people, according to the prefecture. Other activists remained outside the site.
“Forty years is the maximum duration for which nuclear power plants were designed. Today Tricastin is entering an aging phase which is unknown to the engineers who designed it, so that means that we have more and more risks, "said Céline Génot, communications officer at Greenpeace France.
This action, which mobilized in total "fifty activists" according to Greenpeace, intervenes the same day that the reactor n ° 1 of the Fessenheim plant, the oldest French nuclear power plant in operation, must be definitively shut down in the night. But in Alsace, it is employees who threaten to leave it in operation because they do not want to "disconnect this safe, profitable reactor ..."
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