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French police on Tuesday arrested 34Greenpeace activists after several dozen activities entered a nuclear power plant in eastern France's Fessenheim in a move to reveal security problems at atomic facilities, local media reported.
Earlier in the day, 56 activists from Greenpeace forced their way into EDF-operated plant and hung a banner from the roof that read "Stop Risking Europe."
In their fresh break-in, the activists from different European countries urged French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to engage new way of power production and boost alternative sources of energy at the European summit scheduled to open on Thursday.
"From the moment we know that these are environmental activists... we have to adjust our level of response and the optimal conditions of safety even if it takes time," Pierre-Henry Brandet, the interior ministry's spokesman told news channel BFMTV.
France is heavily dependent on nuclear power, with its 58 nuclear reactors producing some 75 percent of the nation's electricity.
Hollande had pledged to shut down the country's oldest nuclear plant of Fessenheim by the end of 2016 and to cut the share of nuclear energy in France's electricity production to 50 percent by 2025.
The ecologist activists has taken several similar break-in actions at French nuclear power plants in recent years, a way they want to use to warn people of the danger of atomic power as well as highlight alleged lax security at nuclear plants.
