Superman Drone Crashes Into French Nuclear Plant

Environmental group, Greenpeace's activists, crashed a Superman-shaped drone into a French nuclear plant's spent-fuel pool building to highlight drawbacks in security. "This highlights the vulnerability of these buildings (to outside attacks), which contain the highest amount of radioactivity," it said. Greenpeace has called to convert the spent-fuel buildings into bunkers for greater safety. Greenpeace said it had flown the drone which was piloted by one of its activists into the no-fly zone around EDF’s Bugey nuclear plant and then crashed it against the outer wall of the nuclear plant’s spent-fuel pool building. “This action highlights the extreme vulnerability of these type of buildings, which contain the highest amount of radioactivity in nuclear plants,” Greenpeace said. The drone stunt followed a series of staged break-ins by Greenpeace activists into French nuclear plants, which Greenpeace says are vulnerable to outside attacks, especially the spent-fuel pools. These pools can hold the equivalent of several reactor cores, stored in concrete pools outside the highly reinforced reactor building. Greenpeace says the spent-fuel buildings have not been designed to withstand outside attacks and are the most vulnerable part of French nuclear plants.