Anti-nuclear groups in the United States
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More than eighty 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 Sierra Club. These are direct action, environmental, health, and public interest organizations who oppose nuclear weapons and/or nuclear power. 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".[2]
Some of the most influential groups in the anti-nuclear movement have had members who included Nobel Laureates (e.g., Linus Pauling, Hermann Joseph Muller) and many nuclear physicists. These scientists have belonged primarily to three groups: the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Federation of American Scientists, and the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility.[3]
Groups include:
- Abalone Alliance [4]
- Alliance for Nuclear Accountability[5]
- Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility[6][7][8]
- Arms Control Association.[9][10]
- Beyond Nuclear
- Citizen's Action for Safe Energy
- Citizens Energy Council
- Clamshell Alliance [11]
- Committee for Nuclear Responsibility[12][13]
- Concerned Citizens Against the Bailly Nuclear Site
- Corporate Accountability International[14]
- Council for a Livable World[15]
- Critical Mass[16][17][18]
- Don't Make a Wave Committee
- Economists for Peace and Security [19][20][21]
- Federation of American Scientists[14]
- Friends of the Earth[22][23]
- Heart of America Northwest[14]
- Greenpeace[24]
- Institute for Energy and Environmental Research[25][26]
- Maryland Public Interest Research Group[27]
- Mothers for Peace[28][29][30]
- Musicians United for Safe Energy[31]
- Nevada Desert Experience[32]
- New England Coalition[33][34][35][36][37]
- No Nukes group [38][39]
- Nuclear Age Peace Foundation[40]
- Nuclear Control Institute[41]
- Nuclear Disarmament Partnership[14]
- Nuclear Information and Resource Service [42]
- Nuclear Policy Research Institute[14]
- Nuclear Threat Initiative[14]
- Nuclear Watch of New Mexico[14]
- Peace Action[43] P[44]
- Physicians for Social Responsibility [45][46]
- Pilgrim Watch [47]
- Plowshares Movement[48]
- Public Citizen[49][50]
- Rocky Flats Truth Force[51]
- Riverkeeper[52]
- Shad Alliance[53][54]
- Shundahai Network[14]
- Sierra Club[55][56][57]
- Southern Alliance for Clean Energy[58][59]
- The Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice[14]
- Two Futures Project[60]
- Tri-Valley CARE[14]
- White House Peace Vigil
- Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control[61]
- Women Strike for Peace[62][63]
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See also [edit]
- Anti-nuclear protests in the United States
- Environmental movement in the United States
- List of anti-nuclear groups
- List of books about nuclear issues
- List of companies in the nuclear sector
- List of nuclear power groups
- Nuclear accidents in the United States
- Nuclear energy policy
- Nuclear power in the United States
- Nuclear power whistleblowers
- Nuclear safety in the U.S.
- Three Mile Island (book)
References [edit]
- ^ Many of these groups are listed at "Protest movements against nuclear energy" in Wolfgang Rudig (1990). Anti-nuclear Movements: A World Survey of Opposition to Nuclear Energy, Longman, pp. 381-403.
- ^ Matthew L. Wald. Nuclear Agency's Chief Praises Watchdog Groups, The New York Times, June 23, 1992.
- ^ Jerome Price (1982). The Anti-nuclear Movement, Twayne Publishers, p. 65.
- ^ Daniel Pope.Conservation Fallout (book review), H-Net Reviews, August 2007.
- ^ Alliance for Nuclear Accountability > Welcome
- ^ Regulators criticize safety "culture" at San Onofre nuke plant
- ^ Rochelle Becker (April 18, 2011). "Who would pay if nuclear disaster happened here?". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ http://a4nr.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/042211-A4NR-petition.pdf
- ^ http://www.armscontrol.org/about
- ^ http://www.armscontrol.org/act/current
- ^ Gary L. Downey. Ideology and the Clamshell Identity Social Problems, Vol. 33, No. 5, June 1986, p. 357.
- ^ The Committee for Nuclear Responsibility
- ^ John Gofman (USA)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j MBEAW. "Anti-nuclear Movement".
- ^ "Council for a Livable World".
- ^ Steve Cohn (1997). Too cheap to meter: an economic and philosophical analysis of the nuclear dream SUNY Press, pp. 133-134.
- ^ Wolfgang Rudig (1990). Anti-nuclear Movements: A World Survey of Opposition to Nuclear Energy, Longman, p. 402.
- ^ Steve E. Barkan. Strategic, Tactical and Organizational Dilemmas of the protest Movement Against Nuclear Power Social Problems, Vol. 27, No. 1, October 1979, p. 23.
- ^ EPS USA, History, accessed 1 March 2010
- ^ Robert Schwartz, 88, Broker and Promoter of Social Causes, Dies New York Times, 19 May 2006.
- ^ Robert J. Schwartz (2002), Can you make a difference?: a memoir of a life for change, Lantern Books, ISBN 978-1-59056-032-7
- ^ Plans for new nuclear reactors in S.C. challenged
- ^ Why a Future for the Nuclear Industry is Risky
- ^ Nuclear Issues
- ^ IEER Publications
- ^ Science for Democratic Action
- ^ Anti-Nuclear Group Fights Third Reactor
- ^ The Atomic West p. 208.
- ^ Nuclear commission rejects protest over California plant
- ^ Julia Hickey (April 17, 2001). "Anti-nuclear rally at Avila Beach". The Tribune.
- ^ Commentary: Stealth nuke effort should be stopped
- ^ 19 anti-nuclear protesters cited at Nevada Test Site
- ^ Renee Parsons (2012-04-16). "No Nukes and Intervening Women". Huffington Post.
- ^ New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution
- ^ Nuclear Agency's Chief Praises Watchdog Groups
- ^ Oldest operating US nuclear power plant shut down
- ^ Vermont Yankee's woes top list of year's big stories
- ^ “For What It’s Worth,” No Nukes Reunite After Thirty Years
- ^ Musicians Act to Stop New Atomic Reactors
- ^ Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. "About the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation".
- ^ About us
- ^ About NIRS
- ^ Peace-Action About Peace-Action Retrieved June 19, 2007
- ^ The National Network
- ^ Professional Groups Flocking to Anti-nuclear Drive
- ^ Physicians for Social Responsibility
- ^ [1]
- ^ Herbert Mitgang. Books of The Times; Shifting Causes: Updates From the American Left New York Times, June 26, 1991.
- ^ About the Energy Program
- ^ The Fatal Flaws of Nuclear Power
- ^ Ann Morrissett Davidon (December 1979). "The U.S. Anti-nuclear Movement". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. p. 46.
- ^ Environmental group protests nuclear plant license renewal
- ^ Brown, Jerry and Brutoco, Rinaldo (1997). Profiles in power: The antinuclear movement and the dawn of the solar age, Prentice Hall, pp. 63-64.
- ^ Lights Out at Shoreham: Anti-nuclear activism spurs the closing of a new $6 billion plant
- ^ Deadly Nuclear Waste Transport
- ^ NJ nuclear plant opponents appeal relicensing
- ^ Nuclear license renewal sparks protest
- ^ Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
- ^ Nuclear Expansion
- ^ Nashville preacher leads no-nuke push
- ^ Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control
- ^ Woo, Elaine (January 30, 2011). "Dagmar Wilson dies at 94; organizer of women's disarmament protesters". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Hevesi, Dennis (January 23, 2011). "Dagmar Wilson, Anti-Nuclear Leader, Dies at 94". The New York Times.
Further reading [edit]
- Falk, Jim (1982). Gobal Fission:The Battle Over Nuclear Power, Oxford University Press.
- Jasper, James M. (1997). The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social Movements, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-39481-6
- Natti, Susanna and Acker, Bonnie (1979). No nukes: Everyone's guide to nuclear power.
- Ondaatje, Elizabeth H. (c1988). Trends in antinuclear protests in the United States, 1984-1987.
- Peterson, Christian (2003). Ronald Reagan and Antinuclear Movements in the United States and Western Europe, 1981-1987.
- Polletta, Francesca (2002). Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-67449-5
- Smith, Jennifer (Editor), (2002). The Antinuclear Movement.
- Wellock, Thomas R. (1998). Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958-1978, The University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 0-299-15850-0
External links [edit]
- A Question of Power documentary film
- The anti-nuke activist with a very loud voice
- Filming the anti-nuke movement
- For Anti-Nuke Crowd, One Choice
