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 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 and Hermann Joseph Muller). These scientists have belonged primarily to two groups: the Federation of American Scientists, and the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility.[3]
Specific groups
Groups include:
See also
- 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 safety in the U.S.
- Nuclear whistleblowers
References
Further reading
- Falk, Jim (1982). Global 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