Nuclear movement, anti

In democratic societies, public acceptance is a prerequisite for realizing high level waste disposal repositories. Perspectives are accordingly dependent on the outcome of the related public discussions in which anti-nuclear movements play an important role. Sometimes in combination with political parties, such movements have become today a political force which can not be neglected. What they have to say has to be seriously analyzed and it is important to establish a proper dialogue Even with the understandable intention to avoid unnecessary confix ntation, one must not avoid controversial and emotional debates involved. 

Koopmans R, Duyvendak JW (1995) Political construction of the nuclear energy issue and its impact on the mobilization of anti-nuclear movements in Western Europe. Soc Probl 42(2) 235-251... 

The early history of atomic weapons and fallout left a residue of fear and distrust of nuclear technologies. The so-called anti-nuke movement developed from this residue. Civilian nuclear power plants use a controlled nuclear fission reaction to boil water to turn a steam turbine to make electricity. The corporate sector was initially reluctant to finance nuclear power plants when President Eisenhower praised them in 1953. However after Congress enacted the Price-Anderson Act in 1957, to limit corporate liability in case of mishap, development of the technology proceeded apace. The first nuclear power plant built without direct government funding went on-line in late 1959. 

Rifas s main contribution to the anti-nuclear comic book movement, however, came with his All-Atomic Comics (1976), in which he launched a well-argued denunciation of the entire nuclear power industry. When he began the project four years earlier, the artist confessed, he had planned to present a "balanced" view of the question, but soon he gave up the idea. The narrator for All-Atomic Comics is a three-legged frog, and the story line is periodically intermpted with "Fun Facts to Know and Tell about Nuclear Power." These "facts" spoke of the 1974 death of Karen Silkwood, the mutation of frogs from waste dumped by the Amsterdam Nuclear Research Institute in Holland,... 

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