Nuclear security

French nuclear power plants pose a grave security risk – lawmakers

France is the most nuclear dependent country in the world, with 75 percent of its energy produced by 58 reactors at 19 nuclear power plants. Many of those plants are ageing and even new reactors have been plagued by a number of serious problems.

In February, after a string of break-ins carried out by the environmental group Greenpeace to illustrate the vulnerability of France's nuclear power plants, parliament began an investigation into the issue. The findings of the report were published on Thursday.

Over the past five months a cross-party parliamentary commission conducted interviews with experts and visited a number of sites across France as well as Japan.