http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_protests_in_the_United_States
Bodega Bay[edit]
Pacific Gas & Electric planned to build the first commercially viable nuclear power plant in the USA at Bodega Bay, a fishing village fifty miles north of San Francisco. The proposal was controversial and conflict with local citizens began in 1958.[19] In 1963 there was a large demonstration at the site of the proposed Bodega Bay Nuclear Power Plant.[20] The conflict ended in 1964, with the forced abandonment of plans for the power plant. Attempts to build a nuclear power plant in Malibu were similar to those at Bodega Bay and were also abandoned.[19]
Montague Nuclear Power Plant[edit]
On 22 February 1974, Washington's Birthday, organic farmer Sam Lovejoy took a crowbar to the weather-monitoring tower which had been erected at the Montague Nuclear Power Plant site. Lovejoy felled 349 feet of the 550 foot tower and then took himself to the local police station, where he presented a statement in which he took full responsibility for the action. Lovejoy's action galvanized local public opinion against the plant.[23][24] The Montague nuclear power plant proposal was canceled in 1980,[25] after $29 million was spent on the project.[23]
BONUS: note huge difference between Lovejoy and Eddie Snowden
Black Fox Nuclear Power Plant[edit]
See also: Carrie Barefoot Dickerson
June 2, 1979: about 500 people were arrested for protesting about construction of the Black Fox Nuclear Power Plant in Oklahoma.[30][49]
February 1982: following years of legal action and protests, it was announced that the plant would not be built.[50][51]
Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant[edit]
See also: Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant
August 12, 1978: Forty protesters are arrested at the first anti-Shoreham demonstration.[52][53]
June 3, 1979: following the Three Mile Island accident, some 15,000 people attended a rally organized by the Shad Alliance and about 600 were arrested at Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant in New York.[52][54][55]
1989: after many years of protests, the completed Shoreham plant was closed without generating any commercial electrical power.[54][56]
Rancho Seco Nuclear Power Plant[edit]
In 1979, Abalone Alliance members held a 38-day sit-in at Californian Governor Jerry Brown's office to protest continued operation of Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station, which was a duplicate of the Three Mile Island facility.[62] In 1989, Sacramento voters voted to shut down the Rancho Seco power plant.[63]
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