U.S. Safe Energy Groups

Here's who's doing work to stop nuclear power in the U.S.

The antinuclear movement has been around since the dawn of the nuclear age, with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

One of the first known campaigns to stop the development of nuclear power came in 1958 when the Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) attempted to build a complex of reactors just north of San Francisco, less than 1000 feet from the epicenter of the 1906 earthquake. The fight took nearly five years before PG&E was forced to abandon the project, leaving an $8 million duck pond behind, where they had started to excavate the site.

Since then grassroots and national organizations have spread around the world, having stopped numerous attempts to construct reactors.

In California, PG&E along had plans to build over 60 reactors across its service territory. Today it has two reactors at the Diablo Canyon site near San Luis Obispo.

One of the campaign to stop PG&E's reactors came from activists in Santa Cruz Ca. that successfully stopped attempts to build a mega-complex in Davenport in the late 1970's. The project was neve built. A decade later, the 6.8 earthquake that caused over $10 billion in damages struck a few miles from where PG&E had planned to build the nuclear project!

Today, as in the past, the reasons not to build nuclear power have not changed, if not gotten more important than ever.

We do not need more reactors, the reasons to stop the insanity of constructing any kind of targetable nuclear site is beyond just a few simplistic worries.

A severe accident like the Chernobyl disaster has worldwide implications both economically and healthwise. A single accident was supposed to never occur, yet there have been many, including attacks of aggression, including current threats by Israel against an Iranian site, and their attack on Iraq's nuclear facility in 1983.

The only reason new facilities have even a remote chance of being built is if the federal and state governments give private companies immense economic incentives, such as the $50 billion loans passed by congress in August 2007.