Anti-nuclear movement in Austria

In this article, we will explore the relevance of Anti-nuclear movement in Austria in various contexts and its impact on today's society. Anti-nuclear movement in Austria has captured the attention of many people in recent years, generating debates and reflections around its meaning and implications. Throughout history, Anti-nuclear movement in Austria has played a crucial role in the evolution of societies and the formation of individual and collective identities. From its emergence to the present, Anti-nuclear movement in Austria has been the object of study, admiration, controversy and reinterpretation in fields as diverse as science, technology, art, politics and popular culture. In this article, we will examine how Anti-nuclear movement in Austria has shaped our world and will continue to do so in the future.

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Construction of the first Austrian nuclear power plant in Zwentendorf on the Danube, about 30 kilometres upstream from the capital, Vienna, began in 1972. Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant was designed as a boiling water reactor with a capacity of 700 MW(e), that was expected to generate about 10% of the Austrian electricity production.

Many groups in the public society stood up against this commercial-technical development. From heritage and family-oriented more conservative people to utopian-driven leftists, activists for nature and the environment to critical technicians. They organised in a platform called "IÖAG - Initiative österreichischer Atomkraftwerksgegner" (transliterated: IOeAG), edited a simple DIN A5 brochure "Wie ist das mit den Atomkraftwerken wirklich?" (What is it about the nuclear power plants, really?) and an in volume and circulation growing newspaper, both financed by private members and a selling price. Many activists organised in groups, presented information desks, spoke to passing people visited and contributed offensive to official information events.

However, in June 1978, the Socialist Chancellor Dr. Kreisky, announced a referendum on nuclear power, which was set down for November 5, 1978. The referendum resulted in a narrow majority against the Zwentendorf plant. Nearly two thirds of the voters (3.26 million people) went to the polls and of these 49.5% voted for, and 50.5% against, nuclear power.

Newspapers did not write much about accidents, that already had happened until then. But Verbund - owning the big water power plants (and the grid) in Austria - feared a lowering of the price of electricity by the upcoming of nuclear power and started an advertising campaign in the months before the referendum in "Kronenzeitung". Suddenly this wide circulated newspaper published a series about the history and the accidents of nuclear power.[citation needed]

The Zwentendorf plant was completed but has never produced electricity from nuclear energy.

Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann expects anti-nuclear petition drives to start in at least six European Union countries in 2012 with the goal of having the EU abandon nuclear power. Under the EU's Lisbon Treaty, petitions that attract at least one million signatures can seek legislative proposals from the European Commission. This would pave the way for anti-nuclear activists to increase support.

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  1. ^ a b Austria's no to nuclear power
  2. ^ "Austria's Anti-Nuclear Crusade" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-04-22. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
  3. ^ "Austria expects EU anti-nuclear campaign this year". Reuters. Mar 12, 2012.
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