Anti-nuclear movement in Austria
The anti-nuclear power movement in Austria came into being in 1972 with the construction of the first Austrian nuclear power plant Zwentendorf in Zwentendorf an der Donau , about 30 km upstream from the capital Vienna .
The Zwentendorf nuclear power plant was designed as a boiling water reactor with a capacity of 700 MW and was supposed to produce around 10% of Austria's electricity needs. But in June 1978 the Social Democratic Chancellor Bruno Kreisky announced a referendum on November 5, 1978 on the nuclear power plant . The referendum ended with a narrow majority against Zwentendorf. Almost two thirds of the voters (3.26 million people) went to the polls and of these, 49.5% voted for and 50.5% against the nuclear power plant. In Zwentendorf, electricity was never generated from nuclear energy.
Chancellor Werner Faymann expected the anti-nuclear petitions, which began in six countries of the European Union in 2012, to result in the EU withdrawing from nuclear energy. The EU Treaty of Lisbon, supported by over a million petition signatures, increased the pressure of anti-nuclear activists.
See also
- The Greens - The Green Alternative
- Salzburg platform against nuclear dangers
- Hildegard Breiner
- Robert Jungk
- Freda Meissner-Blue
- Austrian energy industry
- Nuclear phase-out
- Federal constitutional law for a nuclear-free Austria
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b in Austria not on nuclear energy (PDF; 94 kB)
- ↑ Austria Anti-Nuclear Crusade (PDF; 170 kB)
- ↑ Austria expects EU anti-nuclear campaign this year . In: Reuters . March 12, 2012. Retrieved March 9, 2013.