Action at Flamanville Nuclear Reactor

Police arrives where 55 Greenpeace activists chained themselves to halt construction at the site of the Electricité de France (EDF) proposed new European Pressurized Water Reactor (EPR). The activists block the entrance to the site with a truck and occupy cranes, demanding an immediate end to construction at both Flamanville in France and Europe's other EPR sites calling the plants dangerous and uneconomic.

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Action at Flamanville Nuclear Reactor Construction

Greenpeace activists halt construction at the site of the Electricité de France (EDF) proposed new European Pressurized Water Reactor (EPR). Activists block the entrance to the site with a truck and occupy cranes, demanding an immediate end to construction at both Flamanville in France and Europe's other EPR site at Olkiluoto, Finland, calling the plants dangerous, unnecessary and uneconomic all the more regarding the Fukushima disaster. Greenpeace also urges French government and Areva to cancel the EPR construction project in Penly (France) and to stop nuclear investments in Jaitapur (India).

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Unique identifier: GP02DB8

Type: Image

Shoot date: 02/05/2011

Locations: Europe, Flamanville, Manche, France

Size: 3888px × 2592px 993.11 KB

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)