Greenpeace Protesters Stage Break-in at Nuclear Power Plant (UK)

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Tue, Jan 14, 2003 10:20AM

Greenpeace campaigners scale the dome containing the pressurized water reactor at Sizewell B nuclear power station, near Leiston, Suffolk, England, Monday, Jan. 13, 2003. Nineteen Greenpeace protesters earlier entered the building and said their action is to highlight poor security at Britain's nuclear power plants and their vulnerability to terrorist attacks, not to tamper with the power station's operations. (AP Photo/Andrew Parsons/PA)

Published on Tuesday, January 14, 2003 by the Associated Press
So Much for Security...
Greenpeace Protesters Stage Break-in at Nuclear Power Plant

LONDON - More than 30 anti-nuclear protesters used ropes, ladders and wire-cutters to break into the central control building of a nuclear power station in eastern England on Monday, the environmental group Greenpeace said.

Greenpeace, which campaigns for an end to nuclear energy, said it staged the break-in to expose poor security at the Sizewell B plant and other nuclear facilities.

"It is a terrifying thought that if we can do this then anyone can," said Rob Gueterbock, one of the protesters who occupied the plant's roof during the daylong demonstration. "We wouldn't do anything to interfere with the plant, but if terrorists targeted a nuclear power station it would be deadly."

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