Anti-nuclear groups in the United States

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 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:

Abalone Alliance [4] Alliance for Nuclear Accountability[5] Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility[6][7][8] Arms Control Association.[9][10] Beyond Nuclear Citizens Energy Council Cactus Alliance (in Utah)[11] Catfish Alliance (in Alabama)[11] Nuclear Energy Information Service of Chicago (NEIS) Citizen's Committee for Protection of the Environment[12] Clamshell Alliance[13] Coalition Against Nukes Coalition for Nuclear Power Postponement Committee for a Nuclear Free Island Committee for a Nuclear Overkill Moratorium[14] Committee for Nuclear Responsibility[15][16] Concerned Citizens Against the Bailly Nuclear Site Corporate Accountability International[17] Council for a Livable World[18] Crabshell Alliance (in Seattle)[11] Critical Mass[19][20][21] Don't Make a Wave Committee Economists for Peace and Security [22][23][24] Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power[12] Federation of American Scientists[17] Friends of the Earth[25][26] Heart of America Northwest[17] Greenpeace[27] Institute for Energy and Environmental Research[28][29] Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy Maryland Public Interest Research Group[30] Mothers for Peace[31][32][33]

Musicians United for Safe Energy[34][35][36] North Anna Environmental Coalition[12] Nevada Desert Experience[37] New England Coalition[38][39][40][41][42] Nuclear Age Peace Foundation[43] Nuclear Control Institute[44] Nuclear Disarmament Partnership[17] Nuclear Information and Resource Service [45] Nuclear Policy Research Institute[17] Nuclear Threat Initiative[17] Nuclear Watch of New Mexico[17] Nuclear Watch South[17] Oystershell Alliance (in New Orleans)[11] Palmetto Alliance (in South Carolina)[11] Peace Action[46] People's Alliance for Clean Energy Physicians for Social Responsibility [47][48] Pilgrim Watch [49] Plowshares Movement[50] Public Citizen[51][52] Red Clover Alliance (in Vermont)[11] Rocky Flats Truth Force[53] Riverkeeper[54] Shad Alliance[55][56] Shundahai Network[17] Sierra Club[57][58][59] Southern Alliance for Clean Energy[60][61] Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice[17] Two Futures Project[62] Tri-Valley CARE[17] White House Peace Vigil Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control[63] Women Strike for Peace[64][65]

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 whistleblowers
• Nuclear safety in the U.S.
• Three Mile Island (book)

References

1. 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.
2. Matthew L. Wald. Nuclear Agency's Chief Praises Watchdog Groups, The New York Times, June 23, 1992.
3. Jerome Price (1982). The Anti-nuclear Movement, Twayne Publishers, p. 65.
4. Daniel Pope.Conservation Fallout (book review), H-Net Reviews, August 2007.
5. Alliance for Nuclear Accountability > Welcome
6. Regulators criticize safety "culture" at San Onofre nuke plant
7. Rochelle Becker (April 18, 2011). "Who would pay if nuclear disaster happened here?". San Francisco Chronicle.
8. http://a4nr.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/042211-A4NR-petition.pdf
9. http://www.armscontrol.org/about
10. http://www.armscontrol.org/act/current
11. Lisa Lynch (2012). "'We don't wanna be radiated:' Documentary Film and the Evolving Rhetoric of Nuclear Energy Activism" (PDF). American Literature Ecocriticism Issue.
12. Renee Parsons (2012-04-16). "No Nukes and Intervening Women". Huff Post Green.
13. Gary L. Downey. Ideology and the Clamshell Identity Social Problems, Vol. 33, No. 5, June 1986, p. 357.
14. Trevor Jensen (April 13, 2010). "Robert A. Cleland, 1920-2010: Peace and anti-nuclear activist". Chicago Tribune.
15. The Committee for Nuclear Responsibility
16. John Gofman (USA)
17. MBEAW. "Anti-nuclear Movement".
18. "Council for a Livable World".
19. Steve Cohn (1997). Too cheap to meter: an economic and philosophical analysis of the nuclear dream SUNY Press, pp. 133-134.
20. Wolfgang Rudig (1990). Anti-nuclear Movements: A World Survey of Opposition to Nuclear Energy, Longman, p. 402.
21. 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.
22. EPS USA, History, accessed 1 March 2010
23. Robert Schwartz, 88, Broker and Promoter of Social Causes, Dies New York Times, 19 May 2006.
24. Robert J. Schwartz (2002), Can you make a difference?: a memoir of a life for change, Lantern Books, ISBN 978-1-59056-032-7
25. Plans for new nuclear reactors in S.C. challenged
26. Why a Future for the Nuclear Industry is Risky
27. Nuclear Issues
28. IEER Publications
29. Science for Democratic Action
30. Anti-Nuclear Group Fights Third Reactor
31. The Atomic West p. 208.
32. Nuclear commission rejects protest over California plant
33. Julia Hickey (April 17, 2001). "Anti-nuclear rally at Avila Beach". The Tribune. Archived from the original on 2012-03-22.
34. Commentary: Stealth nuke effort should be stopped
35. “For What It’s Worth,” No Nukes Reunite After Thirty Years
36. Musicians Act to Stop New Atomic Reactors
37. 19 anti-nuclear protesters cited at Nevada Test Site
38. Renee Parsons (2012-04-16). "No Nukes and Intervening Women". Huffington Post.
39. New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution
40. Nuclear Agency's Chief Praises Watchdog Groups
41. Oldest operating US nuclear power plant shut down
42. Vermont Yankee's woes top list of year's big stories
43. Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. "About the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation".
44. About us
45. About NIRS
46. Peace-Action About Peace-Action Retrieved June 19, 2007
47. Professional Groups Flocking to Anti-nuclear Drive
48. Physicians for Social Responsibility
50. Herbert Mitgang. Books of The Times; Shifting Causes: Updates From the American Left New York Times, June 26, 1991.
51. About the Energy Program
52. The Fatal Flaws of Nuclear Power
53. Ann Morrissett Davidon (December 1979). "The U.S. Anti-nuclear Movement". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. p. 46.
54. Environmental group protests nuclear plant license renewal
55. Brown, Jerry and Brutoco, Rinaldo (1997). Profiles in power: The antinuclear movement and the dawn of the solar age, Prentice Hall, pp. 63-64.
56. Lights Out at Shoreham: Anti-nuclear activism spurs the closing of a new $6 billion plant
57. Deadly Nuclear Waste Transport
58. NJ nuclear plant opponents appeal relicensing
59. Nuclear license renewal sparks protest
60. Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
61. Nuclear Expansion
62. Nashville preacher leads no-nuke push
63. Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control
64. Woo, Elaine (January 30, 2011). "Dagmar Wilson dies at 94; organizer of women's disarmament protesters". Los Angeles Times.
65. Hevesi, Dennis (January 23, 2011). "Dagmar Wilson, Anti-Nuclear Leader, Dies at 94". The New York Times.

Further reading

• 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

• 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