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Greenpeace Breaks Into French Nuclear Plant
dotancohen writes "Greenpeace activists secretly entered a French nuclear site before dawn and draped a banner reading 'Hey' and 'Easy' on its reactor containment building, to expose the vulnerability of atomic sites in the country. Greenpeace said the break-in aimed to show that an ongoing review of safety measures, ordered by French authorities after a tsunami ravaged Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant earlier this year, was focused too narrowly on possible natural disasters, and not human factors."
And if they'd gotten shot doing this, would they be saying how mean the French are?
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Nukes are not going away. Too many reasons to continue it. HOWEVER, between Japan and now this, I think that France requires some massive upgrades. However, job #1 MUST BE SECRUITY.
And these ppl should NOT be ripped for this. THey should be scolded publicly and then privately thanked.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
And when one of these fuckers gets smoked by GIGN or whatever the French use for this sort of thing, I don't want to hear the damned whining of bleeding hearts on the interweb.
That involved being on the other side of this airtight hatch.
How long would it take to actually penetrate the containment building?
From Wikipedia:
The containment building itself is typically an airtight steel structure enclosing the reactor normally sealed off from the outside atmosphere. The steel is either free-standing or attached to the concrete missile shield. In the United States, the design and thickness of the containment and the missile shield are governed by federal regulations (10 CFR 50.55a), and must be strong enough to withstand the impact of a fully loaded passenger airliner without rupture.
They are quite sane, but they are also confrontational.
Given that NON-confrontational methods don't work, and that GP are serious, why not up the ante?
They demonstrated French nuke security sucks, so their objective was accomplished.
They could just as easily have carried:
Satchel charges including shaped demo charges and EFPs (can reach from a short distance to save time emplacing them) to breach containment and disable backup cooling systems or system power.
Portable exothermic breaching kit to slice through security doors/locks.
Small arms to dispose of any guards.
They didn't, but they proved it practical. There is no "security" without ARMED defense on the spot. That applies to everything from nuclear reactors to your house or apartment. Unless you can halt opposing human attack by shutting down their central nervous systems, they are free to do their will.
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Umm, no. Greenpeace called the French authorities and told them that they'd sent men sneaking into nuclear power plants, and the French authorities then stood down their snipers and allowed the Greenpeace guys to finish climbing the building and deploy their banner before arresting them.
So, the phone call saved the lives of the Greenpeace protesters, which hardly shows that security of the plants was lax....
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I wonder if coal plants put out more radioactivity in total when the whole life cycle of the plants are considered. Decommissioning nuclear power plants is both expensive and difficult, and according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_decommissioning#Cost_of_decommissioning) there have been cases where decommissioning have involved leaks despite huge investments in securing the dismantlement.
Funnily enough, the whole tongue-in-cheek thing was started by a frenchman
I forget the exact details, but he was sarcastically complimenting an englishman on his "invention", that the french had actually done years before
pressing your tongue lightly against your cheek prevented you from accidentally smiling after making a sarcastic comment
Sabotage is also a French word - throwing shoes into the machinery.
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What I find astonishing about Fukushima is learning that we've decided to keep nuclear waste in a manner that is not failsafe. That we need to actively cool.
That is possibly the most idiotic thing I've ever heard. It's not like it's an infinite amount of heat.
Spread it out, pour some iron on it, and put in some giant heat sinks or something.
Christ, it's like everyone is an idiot or something. 'Hey, this generates a set amount of heat per second, forever, and if it ever gets above a certain temperature it will melt through things.'. 'Herp derp, let's pump water past it. There's no way that could go wrong.' 'Maybe we could rig it where it just distributes the heat to the air or the ground or something, which would only fail if the sun started consuming the earth and heated the atmosphere up massively?' 'Nope, takes too much space. Water pump, that's the plan!'
I understand reactors having problems when shut down, but the waste? Seriously?
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
Sniping people should NOT be the first response.
Yeah, they should definitely let terrorists get into the reactor and blow it up rather than risk shooting a lefty retard who's out for a publicity stunt.