Anti-nuclear movement

Anti-nuclear movement

The anti-nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes the use of nuclear technologies. Many direct action groups, environmental groups and professional organizations identified himself with the movement locally, nationally and internationally. Major anti-nuclear groups include the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Nuclear Information and Resource Service. The initial objective of nuclear disarmament movement was, although the focus has shifted to include opposition to the use of nuclear energy.

There have been many important events and anti-nuclear protests. A protest against nuclear power that occurred in July 1977 in Bilbao, Spain, with a maximum of 200 000 people attended. After the accident at Three Mile Island in 1979, an anti-nuclear demonstration took place in New York, attended by 200,000 people. In 1981, Germany's largest anti-nuclear protest was held to protest the nuclear Brokdorf west of Hamburg, about 100,000 people came face to face with 10,000 police officers. The largest anti-nuclear demonstration took place June 12, 1982, when a million people marched in New York against nuclear weapons. A demonstration of nuclear weapons in West Berlin in 1983 were approximately 600,000 participants. In May 1986, after the Chernobyl disaster, an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 people marched in Rome to protest against the nuclear program in Italy.

Several years after implantation of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power is out in many countries, and anti-nuclear movement appeared to win their case. Some anti-nuclear groups in the dissolution. In the year 2000, however, the following public relations activities by the nuclear industry , progress in nuclear reactor designs, and concern about climate change, nuclear issues is back to energy policy debates in some countries. 2011 Japanese nuclear accidents later, weakened by the resurgence of the nuclear industry and revitalize the proposed anti-nuclear passions around the world governments to set up a defensive position. As of June 2011 in countries such as Australia, Austria, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Israel, Malaysia, New Zealand and Norway, are opposed to nuclear power. As of June 2011, Germany and Switzerland are the phase of nuclear energy.