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Spanish police detain 30 at Greenpeace nuclear power plant protest
Madrid (AFP) Nov 20, 2008 Police in Spain detained 30 Greenpeace activists Thursday who had blocked the entrance to the country's oldest nuclear power station which the environmental group is urging the government to close, the group said. Sixty protesters, wearing bright yellow raincoats, gathered outside the entrance Garona power plant, located some 350 kilometres (220 miles) north of Madrid, just before dawn, according to Spanish television. Several chained themselves to the gates of the facility, others sat in the road leading into the plant while eight activists barricaded themselves inside a container set up in front of the entrance. Police moved in some 10 hours after the protest began to clear the entrance to the plant, which a spokesman said continued to operate normally throughout the day despite the demontration. Nuclear power is highly unpopular in Spain and Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has vowed to gradually phase out nuclear power as part of a drive to boost reliance on renewable energy sources like wind and solar power. But as oil prices hit record levels earlier this year, the government has not ruled out extending the working lives of Spain's existing eight nuclear power plants which supply about 20 percent of Spain's electricity needs. "Zapatero would make a big mistake if he decides to turn his back on the anti-nuclear majority," said the director for the Spanish arm of Greenepace, Juan Lopez de Uralde. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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IAEA gives Kozloduy nuclear plant clean bill of health: Bulgaria
Sofia (AFP) Nov 20, 2008Inspectors from the UN nuclear watchdog have approved the completed modernisation of two nuclear reactors at Bulgaria's plant in Kozloduy, plant operators said Thursday. |
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