STORY: Two Greenpeace activists broke onto the stage at the start of a global nuclear summit in France on Tuesday (March 10), interrupting President Emmanuel Macron and U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi, who were greeting heads of state.

The protesters, dressed sharply in black suits and ties, held banners bearing the Greenpeace logo and reading "Nuclear Power = Energy Insecurity" and "Nuclear power fuels Russia’s war".

One of them shouted at Macron, "Why are we still buying uranium from Russia?" to which the president replied, "We produce nuclear power ourselves."

France has its own uranium enrichment capacity, but also imports enriched uranium for its power plants, including from Russia, according to the latest customs data published by the French government.

Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom accounted for about 44% of the global uranium enrichment capacity in 2025, according to the World Nuclear Association, and European nuclear power producers have struggled to wean themselves off these supplies four years after Russia invaded Ukraine.

Nuclear fuel is the last remaining Russian energy source still imported to the European Union.

Around 15 Greenpeace activists blocked arriving convoys outside the venue in Boulogne-Billancourt on the outskirts of Paris on Tuesday, the environmental campaigning group said in a statement.

France is hosting the second world nuclear energy summit on Tuesday, where world leaders will meet to discuss and promote nuclear power.

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VIDEO SHOWS: PROTESTERS DISPLAYING BANNERS, SHOUTING TO MACRON AND BEING LED AWAY AT ARRIVALS AREA OF NUCLEAR ENERGY SUMMIT IN PARIS

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SHOWS: BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, FRANCE (MARCH 10, 2026) (AGENCY POOL – Access all)

1. FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON AND IAEA HEAD RAFAEL GROSSI WELCOMING CROATIAN PRIME MINISTER ANDREJ PLENKOVIC FOR NUCLEAR SUMMIT / PROTESTER HOLDING BANNER THAT READS (English): “NUCLEAR POWER = ENERGY INSECURITY” WALKING TOWARDS MACRON AND GROSSI THEN BEING ESCORTED AWAY BY SECURITY / ANOTHER PROTESTER UNFURLING BANNER READING (English): “NUCLEAR POWER FUELS RUSSIA’S WAR” WALKING AND STANDING NEXT TO GROSSI, SAYING (French): "Why do we buy uranium in Russia?" THEN BEING TAKEN AWAY BY SECURITY / MACRON STANDING AS PROTESTER IS HEARD SHOUTING ABOUT NUCLEAR ENERGY AND UKRAINE OFF CAMERA, MACRON SAYING (French): "Nuclear, we do ourselves."/ MACRON FACING TO WELCOME CHINESE VICE-PREMIER ZHANG GUOQING