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Europe
Greenpeace pilot overflies French nuclear plant
2006-06-03
A Greenpeace activist was arrested on Thursday after flying an ultralight aircraft over a French nuclear plant to highlight its vulnerability to a 9/11 style attack from the skies. "This action is aimed at showing how little airspace is protected, and how vulnerable the power plant is," said Yannick Rousselet, a spokesman for the French branch of the environmental group. "Despite what the authorities say, no one has time to react if someone seeks to attack the plant from the air," he said.
What's the latest in French shoulder-fired SAM technology?
The activist — who planned to unfurl a banner over the reactor and then leave — was detained after a technical problem forced him to land inside the perimeter of the power plant in the western town of Flamanville.
Heh.
Flamanville has been chosen as the site for France's first third-generation nuclear reactor, the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR).
Posted by:Seafarious

#11  Another Lefty whom can't imagine a world without SSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHH, knowingly Cost-Prohibitive, Absolutist Regulation, Bureaucratism, Welfarism and Universal Governmentism, etal. as long its understood to everyone and no one that the same applies only to other people, not and never to him - you know, "fair" "honest" and "comprehensive" EQUALISM!?
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-06-03 21:28  

#10  He could have done everybody a favor and just crashed into the containment building like a bug on a windshield. It would have made a nice photo for the weekly news magazines.
Posted by: Darrell   2006-06-03 17:21  

#9  Being a Mechanicly Inclined person I'd love to hear just what the "Technical Problem" was that brought this idiot down.

Bullet in the engine block?
Air in the fuel lines?
Turned on the Static Generator and caused his engine to quit"
Had a full sized Helicopter say "Down, or else"?
Tried to unfurl his banner into his own propeller?
Gotta be something serious or he'd just fly away.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2006-06-03 14:50  

#8  Greenpeace pilot overflies French nuclear plant

that should earn the idiot a long visit to devils island, but it won't.
Posted by: RD   2006-06-03 11:39  

#7  Yeah, gotta be NS.
Posted by: 6   2006-06-03 11:01  

#6  I'd say colorixed.

Compare this original to this. Of course, the original could have been a colour shot, but I doubt anyone would send out a colour photog for a black and white paper.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-06-03 08:21  

#5  Is the picture colorized or from the movie?
Posted by: 6   2006-06-03 06:45  

#4  The French should build wind farms right outside the houses of these moonbats, and see if the resulting sleep deprivation helps to set them straight.
Posted by: Concerned Citizen   2006-06-03 05:10  

#3  Why didn't they just shoot him down?

Do you think a nucklear plant would be halmed by the impact of an ultralight?

Of course they should have: it would have been a warning for others.
Posted by: JFM   2006-06-03 04:47  

#2  Prolly cuz they was lining up to surrender...
Posted by: DanNY   2006-06-03 00:26  

#1  Why didn't they just shoot him down?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2006-06-03 00:14  

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