Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Greenpeace breaks into grounds of Swedish nuclear plants

Reuters: Environmental activists from Greenpeace broke into restricted areas surrounding two Swedish nuclear power plants on Tuesday to highlight what they said were safety deficiencies. The stations' owner, Vattenfall, said police had detained 43 people who had used ladders to climb over fences into the grounds of the Forsmark plant on the east coast, and another 16 people at the west-coast Ringhals plant who cut holes in the fence and entered on bicycles. "The activists only reached areas with a lower...

URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/09/us-sweden-nuclear-activists-idUSBRE89814K20121009?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29

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