Security at French Nuclear Power Plant is Breached

December 6, 2011

Lapses in security made it possible for Greenpeace activists to gain entry to a nuclear power plant southeast of Paris.

Interior Minister M. Claude Gueant said there have been lapses in the nuclear plant's security system and has ordered a search of all nuclear plants, said a CNN report.

The environmental activist group said on its website that members gained entry to the plant at Nogent-sur-Seine at dawn and managed to climb the dome of one of its two reactors "in order to spread the message: 'Safe nuclear does not exist.'"

According to CNN, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, called the act "irresponsible," but said that the government will "absolutely publish all" of the audits related to plant security.

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