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The anti-nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies.Some direct action groups, environmental movements, and professional organisations have identified themselves with the movement at the local, national, or international level.
The incident caused widespread concern around the world and "provided a decisive impetus for the emergence of the anti-nuclear weapons movement in many countries". [9] The anti-nuclear weapons movement grew rapidly because for many people the atomic bomb "encapsulated the very worst direction in which society was moving". [19]
The anti-nuclear movement in the United States consists of more than 80 anti-nuclear groups that oppose nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and/or uranium mining.These have included the Abalone Alliance, Citizens Awareness Network, Clamshell Alliance, Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, Nevada Desert Experience, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Physicians for Social Responsibility ...
Anti-nuclear protests in the United States; Anti-nuclear groups in the United States; List of peace activists; List of anti-nuclear advocates in Germany; List of people associated with renewable energy; List of pro-nuclear (power) environmentalists
Anti-nuclear organizations may oppose uranium mining, nuclear power, and/or nuclear weapons. Anti-nuclear groups have undertaken public protests and acts of civil disobedience which have included occupations of nuclear plant sites. Some of the most influential groups in the anti-nuclear movement have had members who were elite scientists ...
Australian anti-nuclear campaigner Jim Green at Melbourne's GPO in March 2011. In 1964, Peace Marches which featured "Ban the bomb" placards, were held in several Australian capital cities. [8] [9] In 1972, the anti-nuclear weapons movement maintained a presence in the Pacific, largely in response to French nuclear testing there.
Some of these anti-nuclear power organisations are reported to have developed considerable expertise on nuclear power and energy issues. [2] In 1992, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said that "his agency had been pushed in the right direction on safety issues because of the pleas and protests of nuclear watchdog groups". [3]
The anti-nuclear movement in Russia is a social movement against nuclear technologies, largely stemming from the results of the Chernobyl incident in 1986.During the most active phase of the anti-nuclear movement, from 1988 to 1992, construction of over 100 nuclear projects were prevented on the territory of the Soviet Union.