A POWER PLANT, GREENPEACE, AND A SUPERMAN DRONE

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A POWER PLANT, GREENPEACE, AND A SUPERMAN DRONE
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• The environmental group Greenpeace hit the news
  recently when they flew a drone shaped and
  designed to look like Superman, straight into the
  wall of a French nuclear power plant. In a
  deliberate attempt to draw attention to the
  vulnerability of the power plant, an activist
  from Greenpeace piloted the drone into the no-fly
  zone around the French utility company EDFs
  nuclear power plant near Lyon, and then proceeded
  to fly the UAV into the wall of the spent-fuel
  pool building at the site.
• Greenpeace themselves released footage of the
  little Superman drone and stated that it showed
  just how easy it was to fly a UAV into a power
  plant in a country that relies heavily on nuclear
  power.

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• This stunt has been one of a series of recent
  break-ins staged by Greenpeace activists
  involving French nuclear power plants, and these
  security breaches are now the subject of an
  investigation launched by French parliament into
  nuclear security.
• France and nuclear power
• France is dependant upon nuclear power,
  generating up to 75 of its electricity and
  nuclear power from 19 plants owned by
  state-controlled utility company, EDF. A
  spokesman from the company said that two drones
  had been flown into the site at Bugey, near Lyon,
  but one had been intercepted by the French police.

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• EDF have since said that the incident presented
  no real threat to the security of the
  installations at the nuclear power plant, and
  that they will be filing a police complaint
  against Greenpeace.
• The vulnerability of nuclear power plants
• A spokesperson from Greenpeace has stated that
  buildings such as those you find within nuclear
  power plants are highly susceptible to attacks
  from drones and other airborne vehicles,
  particularly the spent-fuel pools, which contain
  some of the highest levels of radioactivity found
  in power plants.

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• The pools in question can hold the equivalent of
  many reactor cores and are not designed to be
  able to withstand an attack from something such
  as a drone or missile, and should in fact, be
  turned into bunkers, claims the chief nuclear
  campaigner for Greenpeace in France, Yannick
  Rousselet.
• In response, EDF state that their spent-fuel
  buildings are extremely strong and robust and
  have been designed to cope with such things as
  natural disasters, which have the potential to be
  just as if not more devastating than a
  missile attack.

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• While Greenpeace continue to reiterate that their
  only intention is to highlight the potential
  danger that these nuclear power plants present to
  the public, EDF are growing increasingly more
  frustrated with their actions, and have on at
  least one occasion, been awarded damages from the
  French courts after several Greenpeace activists
  were given suspended prison sentences.
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