London (Platts)--29May2007

French anti-nuclear campaigners were Tuesday occupying a high tension
power pylon in northwest France in a new protest against the plan to build a
EPR type power reactor at Flamanville, Normandy, the Sortir du nucleaire group
said Tuesday.
     According to the group, the action at the pylon in Fougere in the
Ille-et-Vilaine department was being taken to urge the government to scrap the
decree authorizing Electricite de France to build the EPR reactor, ahead of
new talks on the environment, which have been announced by ecology minister
Alain Juppe and Nicolas Sarkozy.
     The group is also protesting against the creation of a new high tension
power link to the new reactor which, according to the campaigners, carries
"important health risks" and would "disfigure the west of France." French grid
manager RTE was unavailable immediately to comment but there were no reports
that the protest was affecting French supplies.
      Juppe has said France should build new nuclear power reactors, including
the Flamanville EPR, to meet France's future energy needs and European Union
targets on green house gas emissions.