Article ID: CBB001550694

Nuclear Energy in the Public Sphere: Anti-Nuclear Movements vs. Industrial Lobbies in Spain (1962--1979) (2015)

unapi

This article examines the role of the Spanish Atomic Forum as the representative of the nuclear sector in the public arena during the golden years of the nuclear power industry from the 1960s to 1970s. It focuses on the public image concerns of the Spanish nuclear lobby and the subsequent information campaigns launched during the late 1970s to counteract demonstrations by the growing and heterogeneous anti-nuclear movement. The role of advocacy of nuclear energy by the Atomic Forum was similar to that in other countries, but the situation in Spain had some distinguishing features. Anti-nuclear protest in Spain peaked in 1978 paralleling the debates of a new National Energy Plan in Congress, whose first draft had envisaged a massive nuclearization of the country. We show how the approval of the Plan in July 1979, with a significant reduction in the nuclear energy component, was influenced by the anti-nuclear protest movements in Spain. Despite the efforts of the Spanish Atomic Forum to counter its message, the anti-nuclear movement was strengthened by reactions to the Three Mile Island accident in March 1979.

...More
Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB001550694/

Similar Citations

Article Leeming, Mark; (2013)
The Creation of Radicalism: Anti-Nuclear Activism in Nova Scotia, c. 1972--1979 (/isis/citation/CBB001550537/)

Book Eric T. Freyfogle; (2017)
A Good That Transcends: How US Culture Undermines Environmental Reform (/isis/citation/CBB554745324/)

Book Colin M. Coates; (2016)
Canadian Countercultures and the Environment (/isis/citation/CBB113807958/)

Book Kaufman, Scott; (2013)
Project Plowshare: The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America (/isis/citation/CBB001320942/)

Book Longhurst, James Lewis; (2010)
Citizen Environmentalists (/isis/citation/CBB001034513/)

Thesis Thomson, Jennifer Christine; (2013)
From Wilderness to the Toxic Environment: Health in American Environmental Politics, 1945-Present (/isis/citation/CBB001567540/)

Book Doyle, Timothy; (2013)
Environmental Movements around the World: Shades of Green in Politics and Culture (/isis/citation/CBB001213198/)

Article Jennifer Thomson; (April 2017)
Surviving the 1970s: The Case of Friends of the Earth (/isis/citation/CBB397427835/)

Book Ana Romero de Pablos; (2019)
Las primeras centrales nucleares españolas: Actores, políticas y tecnologías. (/isis/citation/CBB801831424/)

Article Sarah R. Hamilton; (April 2017)
Environmental Change and Protest in Franco’s Spain, 1939–1975 (/isis/citation/CBB189837597/)

Authors & Contributors
Thomson, Jennifer Christine
Coates, Colin M.
Hamilton, Sarah R.
Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume
Freyfogle, Eric T.
Leeming, Mark
Concepts
Political activists and activism
Environmentalism
Science and politics
Nuclear power; atomic energy
Environmental pollution
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
Places
United States
Spain
San Diego (California)
Nova Scotia
Japan
Canada
Institutions
Friends of the Earth
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Federation of American Scientists
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment