Posts Tagged ‘nuclear scandal’

• Nuclear Piranhas Eat Their Own

  We already know that the nuclear industry is quite comfortable colluding with governments to deceive the public or spying on environmental groups so that senior executives are sent to jail or lying to regulators to cover up radioactive leaks that …

• Greenpeace activists penetrates French nuclear plant, everyone relieved they weren’t terrorists

  The other day nine activists from Greenpeace managed to breach the security, infiltrate and hang a banner on one of the reactor buildings at a French nuclear site. According to media reports the police took “several hours” to respond to …

• French energy giant EDF fined for spying on Greenpeace

  Today a French court fined the largely state-owned energy giant EDF for €1,5 million for spying on Greenpeace campaigners. The French court found that EDF, which is hoping to build four nuclear reactors in the UK, had hired the security …

• France must shut down nuclear plants due to heatwaves

  Photo credit: christian.senger The Times Online are reporting that France have been forced to close down a third of its nuclear power stations this summer due to heatwaves: “France is being forced to import electricity from Britain to cope with …

• France involved in another major nuclear scandal, accused of spying against Greenpeace

  Twenty four years after the deadly attack by the French secret services against Greenpeace’s flagship the Rainbow Warrior it seems France and its nuclear industry is once again caught up in a major scandal involving Greenpeace. A week ago the …