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As part of a national anti-nuclear weapons movement Californians passed a 1982 statewide initiative calling for the end of nuclear weapons. [3] In 1984, the Davis City Council declared the city to be a nuclear free zone. In 2013, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Units 2 and 3 were permanently closed, ending nuclear power in Southern ...
Ward Valley Campaigns are seemingly connected to the anti-nuclear movement in California that gained momentum in the 1970s. [10] [11] The movement had been amidst rising public awareness of nuclear safety issues, particularly after the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, which heightened fears regarding nuclear energy. [12]
Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978 is the first detailed history of the anti-nuclear movement in the United States, written by Thomas Wellock. It is also the first state-level research on the subject with a focus on California. [1] [2] Reviewer Paula Garb has said:
This is a list of Wikipedia articles that are relevant to the topic of nuclear power and nuclear weapons history in the US state of California.The list includes articles about groups that make up the anti-nuclear movement, prominent activists, court cases, a book documenting the state's history, nuclear power stations and the Department of Energy's laboratories in the state.
The Bodega Bay Nuclear Power Plant was a proposed Northern California nuclear power facility that was stopped by local activism in the 1960s and never built. The foundations, located 2 miles (3.2 km) west of the active San Andreas Fault , were being dug at the time the plant was cancelled.
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 ...
Many other anti-nuclear groups formed elsewhere, in support of these local struggles, and some existing citizen action groups widened their aims to include the nuclear issue. [12] Anti-nuclear success at Wyhl also inspired nuclear opposition in the rest of Europe and North America. [13] In 1972, the anti-nuclear weapons movement maintained a ...
The Politics of Nuclear Power: A History of the Shoreham Power Plant, Kluwer. Miller, Byron A. (2000). Geography and Social Movements: Comparing Anti-nuclear Activism in the Boston area, University of Minnesota Press. Natti, Susanna and Acker, Bonnie (1979). No Nukes: Everyone's Guide to Nuclear Power, South End Press. Ondaatje, Elizabeth H ...