drones big enough to carry explosives have flown over as many as seven nuclear power plants around France

Fears raised that France's 58 nuclear reactors are unsafe from airborne attack after unidentified drones manage to fly over seven sites

 

 

The nuclear plant at Creys-Malville in Isère Photo: Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images

By Henry Samuel, Paris

11:34AM GMT 30 Oct 2014

Unidentified drones big enough to carry explosives have flown over as many as seven nuclear power plants around France in the past three weeks, it has emerged.

Electricité de France (EDF), the state-owned operator of France’s 58 nuclear reactors across 19 sites, has filed a legal complaint against persons unknown following the flights over seven sites.

Sparking fears that the country’s reactors are unsafe from airborne attack, none of the drones were intercepted and their origins remain a mystery.

It is forbidden to enter airspace within a five kilometre perimeter around nuclear sites or to fly over them at an altitude of below 1,000 metres.

Yet, on October 5, a drone flew over the nuclear plant at Creys-Malville in Isère, southeastern France. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11197823/Mystery-drones-breach-airspace-above-French-nulcear-sites.html