Charging that the time for a transition to renewable energy is now, over 60 activists with Greenpeace occupied on Tuesday France’s oldest working nuclear power plant.
The group unfurled a banner that reads “Stop Risking Europe” at the 37-year-old Fessenheim plant located near the Swiss and German border.
The aging plant, which the group says is vulnerable to earthquakes and flooding, must be closed. But that plant “is a symbol,” stated Cyrille Cormier, head of the Energy campaign for Greenpeace France. “Its announced closure should be just the start of a series of closures of reactors across Europe to limit risks” and “really start an energy transition,” Cormier stated.
Police arrested 57 of the activists.
The action at Fessenheim comes on the heels of a Greenpeace report that warned that continued operation of Europe’s aging nuclear fleet threatens millions of people with a “new era of risk.”
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