Anti-nuclear groups in the United States

Main article: Anti-nuclear movement in the United StatesAnti-nuclear Authentic Baseball Jersey movementAustralia • Austria • CanadaFrance • Germany • JapanKazakhstan • New ZealandPhilippines • SpainSwitzerland • TaiwanUnited Kingdom • United StatesList of groupsList of protests by countryMore than eighty anti-nuclear groups are operating, or have operated, in the United States.[1] These include: Abalone Alliance, Clamshell Alliance, Greenpeace USA, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Musicians United for Safe Energy, Nevada Desert Experience, Nuclear Control Institute, Phil Rizzuto Jersey Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Public Citizen Energy Program, Shad Alliance, and the Sierra Club. These are direct action, environmental, health, and public interest organizations who oppose nuclear weapons and/or nuclear power. In 1992, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said that "his agency had been pushed in the right direction on safety issues because of the pleas and protests of nuclear watchdog groups".[2]Some of the most influential groups in the anti-nuclear movement have had members who included Nobel Laureates Reggie Jackson Jersey and many nuclear physicists. These scientists have belonged primarily to three groups: the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Federation of American Scientists, and the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility.[3]