After the NGO activists launched a drone and a radio-controlled aircraft to the Bugey plant, Greenpeace called on EDF to take responsibility.
"It was very simple. It was enough to launch these drones from the other side of the Rhône, and to pilot them with a remote control. It lasted a few seconds," said Tuesday July 3 on franceinfo Cyrille Cormier, responsible for the energy campaign at Greenpeace. Earlier in the day, NGO activists threw a drone and a radio-controlled aircraft towards the Bugey power plant, in the Ain, to "deliberately crash them." Greenpeace explained in a statement wanting to demonstrate "the extreme vulnerability of spent fuel storage pools and the critical lack of security of EDF nuclear power plants."
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"They were inert devices, polystyrene drones. Greenpeace acts in non-violence. But imagine if it had been done by a malicious group, with a malicious device, the damage that it could have caused", thus launched Cyrille Cormier. One of the drones depicted a Styrofoam Superman, to signify it was "nonviolent action" and "to provide contrast." "If he had been the real Superman, super strong, he would have pierced this pool, much like an airplane could have done, or criminal flying objects," he continued.
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/societe/nucleaire/drone-de-greenpeace-a-la-centrale-du-bugey-imaginez-si-cela-avait-ete-fait-par-un-groupe-malveillant_2832821.html
Of course it does not prove much in terms of heavy risk for the plant, but it could give bad ideas ...