France will launch a security review at all the country's nuclear sites following a recent break-in by Greenpeace protesters, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Monday.
France
will
launch a security review at all the country's nuclear sites following a recent
break-in by Greenpeace protesters, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said
Monday.
French police recently arrested the environmental group Greenpeace's eleven
activists who broke into two French nuclear-power plants in an attempt to
highlight doubts about reactor security.
"We have decided to launch an inspection of all our sites and to look more
particularly at the anti-intrusion measures that have been put in place,"
Fillon said. More specifically, the inspection would look to strengthen
measures including video surveillance and alarm systems, he said.
The announcement comes as nuclear energy is becoming a central issue in the
2012 French presidential campaign, in a country that has been debating energy
safety since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in
Japan
in
March. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has rejected any need for
France
to
reduce its dependence on nuclear energy, which accounts for about 75% of the
nation's electricity.
But Socialist candidate Francois Hollande has endorsed a plan to reduce
France
's
dependence to 50% by 2025.
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