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More than 80 anti-nuclear groups are operating, or have operated, in the United States.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. 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".Matthew L. Wald. [https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/23/us/nuclear-agency-s-chief-praises-watchdog-groups.html?pagewanted=1 Nuclear Agency's Chief Praises Watchdog Groups], The New York Times, June 23, 1992.

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.Jerome Price (1982). The Anti-nuclear Movement, Twayne Publishers, p. 65.

Specific groups

Groups include:

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  • Abalone AllianceDaniel Pope.[http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=13515 Conservation Fallout (book review)], H-Net Reviews, August 2007.
  • Alliance for Nuclear Accountability[http://www.ananuclear.org Alliance for Nuclear Accountability > Welcome]
  • Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility{{cite web |url=http://www.northcountytimes.com/articles/2009/05/07/news/sandiego/z82719546e291eafa882575b0001be3ff.txt |title=Regulators criticize safety "culture" at San Onofre nuke plant |access-date=2009-05-08 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120913191342/http://www.northcountytimes.com/articles/2009/05/07/news/sandiego/z82719546e291eafa882575b0001be3ff.txt |archive-date=2012-09-13 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/18/EDAV1J2TQ7.DTL |title=Who would pay if nuclear disaster happened here? |author=Rochelle Becker |date=April 18, 2011 |work=San Francisco Chronicle }}{{cite web|url=http://a4nr.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/042211-A4NR-petition.pdf|title=PETITION DEMANDING REJECTION OF LICENSE RENEWAL FUNDING APPLICATIONS PENDING SEISMIC STUDIES OF ON AND OFFSHORE SEISMIC HAZARDS AT CALIFORNIA’S OPERATING NUCLEAR REACTORS|access-date=2023-08-15}}
  • Arms Control Association.{{cite web|url=http://www.armscontrol.org/about|title = About the Arms Control Association | Arms Control Association}}{{cite web |url=http://www.armscontrol.org/act/current |title=Arms Control Today, October 2013 | Arms Control Association |access-date=2012-01-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014121355/http://www.armscontrol.org/act/current |archive-date=2013-10-14 |url-status=dead }}
  • Beyond Nuclear
  • Cactus Alliance (Utah)
  • Catfish Alliance (Alabama){{cite web |url=http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/974944/1/BeRadiatedFINAL.pdf |title='We don't wanna be radiated:' Documentary Film and the Evolving Rhetoric of Nuclear Energy Activism |author=Lisa Lynch |date=2012 |work=American Literature Ecocriticism Issue }}
  • Citizen's Committee for Protection of the Environment
  • Citizens Energy Council
  • Clamshell AllianceGary L. Downey. [https://www.jstor.org/pss/800656 Ideology and the Clamshell Identity] Social Problems, Vol. 33, No. 5, June 1986, p. 357.
  • Coalition Against Nukes[http://coalitionagainstnukes.org Coalition Against Nukes]
  • Coalition for Nuclear Power Postponement
  • Committee for a Nuclear Free Island
  • Committee for a Nuclear Overkill Moratorium{{cite web |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2010/04/13/robert-a-cleland-1920-2010-peace-and-anti-nuclear-activist/ |title=Robert A. Cleland, 1920–2010: Peace and anti-nuclear activist |author=Trevor Jensen |date=April 13, 2010| work=Chicago Tribune }}
  • Committee for Nuclear Responsibility[http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/ The Committee for Nuclear Responsibility][http://www.rightlivelihood.org/gofman.html John Gofman (USA)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081122052120/http://www.rightlivelihood.org/gofman.html |date=2008-11-22 }}
  • Concerned Citizens Against the Bailly Nuclear Site
  • Corporate Accountability International
  • Council for a Livable World{{cite web |url=http://livableworld.org/who/ |title=Council for a Livable World |date=15 December 2014 }}
  • Crabshell Alliance (Seattle)
  • Critical MassSteve Cohn (1997). [https://books.google.com/books?id=qQu_YotSU94C&dq=nader+%22critical+mass%22&pg=PA134 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. [http://www.marcuse.org/harold/hmimages/seabrook/79oBarkanDilemmasProtestMovement.pdf Strategic, Tactical and Organizational Dilemmas of the protest Movement Against Nuclear Power] Social Problems, Vol. 27, No. 1, October 1979, p. 23.
  • Don't Make a Wave Committee
  • Economists for Peace and SecurityEPS USA, [http://www.epsusa.org/main/history.htm History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090414011545/http://epsusa.org/main/history.htm |date=2009-04-14 }}, accessed 1 March 2010[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/business/19schwartz.html Robert Schwartz, 88, Broker and Promoter of Social Causes, Dies] The 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}}
  • Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/renee-parsons/no-nukes-and-intervening-women_b_1425733.html |title=No Nukes and Intervening Women |author=Renee Parsons |date=2012-04-16 |work=Huff Post Green }}
  • Federation of American Scientists{{cite web |url=http://www.mbeaw.org/resources/betterworld/antinukes.html |title=Anti-nuclear Movement |author=MBEAW }}
  • Friends of the Earth{{cite web |url=http://action.foe.org/pressRelease.jsp?press_release_KEY=341&t=2007_Nuclear-Power.dwt |title=Plans for new nuclear reactors in S.C. challenged |access-date=2008-11-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718140646/http://action.foe.org/pressRelease.jsp?press_release_KEY=341&t=2007_Nuclear-Power.dwt |archive-date=2011-07-18 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://a4nr.org/library/nuclearrenaissance/2007.01- |title=Why a Future for the Nuclear Industry is Risky |access-date=2008-11-15 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130223041209/http://a4nr.org/library/nuclearrenaissance/2007.01- |archive-date=2013-02-23 |url-status=dead }}
  • Greenpeace[http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/nuclear Nuclear Issues]
  • Heart of America Northwest
  • Institute for Energy and Environmental Research[http://www.ieer.org/pubs/index.html IEER Publications][http://www.ieer.org/sdafiles/14-2.pdf Science for Democratic Action]{{ cite news | url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0314/Japanese-nuclear-reactor-update-Amid-signs-of-progress-new-problems | title=Japanese nuclear reactor update: Amid signs of progress, new problems | last=Clayton | first=Mark | newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor | date=2011-03-14 | quote="There should be much more attention paid to the spent-fuel pools," says Arjun Makhijani, a nuclear engineer and president of the anti-nuclear power Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. }}{{ cite news | url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Activists-Super-laser-may-bring-tiny-nukes-3079524.php | title=Activists: Super-laser may bring tiny nukes | last=Davidson | first=Keay | newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle | date=1998-07-20 | quote=...says a report by physicist Arjun Makhijani and his colleague Hisham Zerriffi. They work at a leading anti-nuclear think tank, the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in Takoma Park, Md. }}
  • Maryland Public Interest Research Group[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010404370.html Anti-Nuclear Group Fights Third Reactor]
  • Mothers for Peace[https://books.google.com/books?id=ugdHhzX3Fl8C&dq=%22mothers+for+peace%22&pg=PA208 The Atomic West] p. 208.[http://www.smartbrief.com/news/asce/storyDetails.jsp?issueid=AE549ECA-7164-4784-9464-FAE7BD7E8106©id=F37F88D8-1405-4E8A-B9B3-73EB63DAFD46 Nuclear commission rejects protest over California plant]{{cite web|url=http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/04/16/1565807/anti-nuclear-rally-at-avila-beach.html |title=Anti-nuclear rally at Avila Beach |author=Julia Hickey |date=April 17, 2001 |work=The Tribune |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322021108/http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/04/16/1565807/anti-nuclear-rally-at-avila-beach.html |archive-date=2012-03-22 }}
  • Musicians United for Safe Energy[http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/11/nuclear.commentary/ Commentary: Stealth nuke effort should be stopped]{{cite web |title="For What It's Worth," No Nukes Reunite After Thirty Years |url=http://www.nukefree.org/node/96 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719202100/http://www.nukefree.org/node/96 |archive-date=2011-07-19 |access-date=2008-11-15}}[http://www.nirs.org/home.htm Musicians Act to Stop New Atomic Reactors] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150609064533/http://www.nirs.org/home.htm|date=2015-06-09}}
  • Nevada Desert Experience[http://www.ktnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8057676 19 anti-nuclear protesters cited at Nevada Test Site]{{Dead link|date=May 2019|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}
  • New England Coalition{{cite web |author=Renee Parsons |date=2012-04-16 |title=No Nukes and Intervening Women |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/renee-parsons/no-nukes-and-intervening-women_b_1425733.html |work=Huffington Post}}{{cite web |title=New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution |url=http://www.newenglandcoalition.org/about_NEC.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225123644/http://www.newenglandcoalition.org/about_NEC.html |archive-date=2008-02-25 |access-date=2008-11-15}}[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE4D81F3FF930A15755C0A964958260 Nuclear Agency's Chief Praises Watchdog Groups][http://www10.antenna.nl/wise/index.html?http://www10.antenna.nl/wise/369/3628.html Oldest operating US nuclear power plant shut down][http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2007/12/30/vermont_yankees_woes_top_list_of_years_big_stories/ Vermont Yankee's woes top list of year's big stories]{{dead link|date=November 2021}}
  • North Anna Environmental Coalition

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  • Nuclear Age Peace Foundation{{cite web |url=http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/about/ |title=About the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation |author=Nuclear Age Peace Foundation |date=30 August 2022 }}
  • Nuclear Control Institute[http://www.nci.org/ About us]
  • Nuclear Disarmament Partnership
  • Nuclear Energy Information Service{{cite web |url=http://www.neis.org/ |title=Home |website=neis.org}}
  • Nuclear Information and Resource Service{{Cite web |url=http://www.nirs.org/about/nirs.htm |title=About NIRS |access-date=2008-11-15 |archive-date=2016-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160925041930/http://www.nirs.org/about/nirs.htm |url-status=dead }}
  • Nuclear Policy Research Institute
  • Nuclear Threat Initiative
  • Nuclear Watch of New Mexico
  • Nuclear Watch South
  • Oystershell Alliance (New Orleans)
  • Palmetto Alliance (South Carolina)
  • Peace ActionPeace-Action [http://www.peace-action.org/abt/abtpa.html About Peace-Action] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709084225/http://www.peace-action.org/abt/abtpa.html |date=2011-07-09 }} Retrieved June 19, 2007
  • Physicians for Social Responsibility[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9F06E0DE1439F934A15750C0A964948260 Professional Groups Flocking to Anti-nuclear Drive]{{cite web |url=http://www.psr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Home |title=Physicians for Social Responsibility |access-date=2008-11-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081116234115/http://www.psr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Home |archive-date=2008-11-16 |url-status=dead }}
  • Pilgrim Watch{{cite web|url=http://www.pilgrimwatch.org//|title = Pilgrim Watch – What citizens need to know}}
  • Plowshares MovementHerbert Mitgang. [https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/26/books/books-of-the-times-shifting-causes-updates-from-the-american-left.html?pagewanted=1 Books of The Times; Shifting Causes: Updates From the American Left] The New York Times, June 26, 1991.
  • Proposition One Campaign for a Nuclear-Free Future{{cite web |url=http://www.prop1.org/ |title=Home |website=prop1.org}}
  • Public Citizen[http://www.citizen.org/cmep/about/ About the Energy Program][http://www.citizen.org/documents/FatalFlawsSummary.pdf The Fatal Flaws of Nuclear Power]
  • Red Clover Alliance (Vermont)
  • Riverkeeper[http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080103/NEWS01/80103011 Environmental group protests nuclear plant license renewal]
  • Rocky Flats Truth Force{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BQsAAAAAMBAJ&q=the+us+antinuclear+movement+1979+bulletin&pg=PA45 |title=The U.S. Anti-nuclear Movement |author=Ann Morrissett Davidon |date=December 1979 |work=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists |page=46 }}
  • Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice
  • Shad AllianceBrown, Jerry and Brutoco, Rinaldo (1997). Profiles in power: The antinuclear movement and the dawn of the solar age, Prentice Hall, pp. 63–64.[https://web.archive.org/web/20071201005429/http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs9shore%2C0%2C563942.story Lights Out at Shoreham: Anti-nuclear activism spurs the closing of a new $6 billion plant]
  • Shundahai Network
  • Sierra Club{{Cite web |url=http://www.sierraclub.org/nuclearwaste/yucca_factsheet.asp |title=Deadly Nuclear Waste Transport |access-date=2008-11-15 |archive-date=2005-03-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050308152317/http://www.sierraclub.org/nuclearwaste/yucca_factsheet.asp |url-status=dead }}[http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/new_jersey/20090601_ap_njnuclearplantopponentsappealrelicensing.html NJ nuclear plant opponents appeal relicensing]{{Cite web |url=http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-14/1243915641194930.xml&coll=1 |title=Nuclear license renewal sparks protest |access-date=2009-06-03 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175958/http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-14/1243915641194930.xml&coll=1 |url-status=dead }}
  • Southern Alliance for Clean Energy[http://www.cleanenergy.org/about/index.cfm Southern Alliance for Clean Energy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014164940/http://www.cleanenergy.org/about/index.cfm |date=2008-10-14 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.cleanenergy.org/programs/programs.cfm?ID=28&parent=4&ps=Yes |title=Nuclear Expansion |access-date=2008-11-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080312123839/http://www.cleanenergy.org/programs/programs.cfm?ID=28&parent=4&ps=Yes |archive-date=2008-03-12 |url-status=dead }}
  • Trojan Decommissioning Alliance
  • Tri-Valley CARE
  • Two Futures Project[http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090502/NEWS06/905020322/1018/NEWS04 Nashville preacher leads no-nuke push]
  • Western States Legal Foundation{{cite web|url=http://www.wslfweb.org/ |title=Western States Legal Foundation- Advocates for Peace and the Environment |publisher=Wslfweb.org |date= |accessdate=2022-04-20}}
  • White House Peace Vigil{{cite web|url=http://prop1.org/1601frm.htm|title=1601 Pennsylvania Ave}}
  • Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control[http://www.wisconsinproject.org/aboutus.html Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081223140809/http://www.wisconsinproject.org/aboutus.html |date=2008-12-23 }}
  • Women Strike for Peace{{cite web |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dagmar-wilson-20110130,0,5499397.story |title=Dagmar Wilson dies at 94; organizer of women's disarmament protesters |author=Woo, Elaine |date=January 30, 2011 |work=Los Angeles Times }}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/us/24wilson.html |title=Dagmar Wilson, Anti-Nuclear Leader, Dies at 94 |author=Hevesi, Dennis |date=January 23, 2011 |work=The New York Times }}
  • Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, US Section{{cite web|url=http://www.wilpfus.org/ |title=WILPF |publisher=Wilpfus.org |date=2022-02-04 |accessdate=2022-04-20}}

See also

References

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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}}

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110515052606/http://www.dlbfilms.com/questionofpower.html A Question of Power documentary film]
  • [http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC24-25folder/anti-nukeDocs.html Filming the anti-nuke movement]

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