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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 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 ...
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]
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 ...
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
More than 80 anti-nuclear groups are operating, or have operated, in the United States. [1] These include Abalone Alliance, Clamshell Alliance, Greenpeace USA, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Musicians United for Safe Energy, Nevada Desert Experience, Nuclear Control Institute, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Public Citizen Energy Program, Shad Alliance, and the ...
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]
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.