energy.wikisort.org - Power_plantThe Montague Nuclear Power Plant was a proposed nuclear power plant to be located in Montague, Massachusetts. The plant was to consist of two 1150 MWe General Electric boiling water reactors. The project was proposed in 1973 and canceled in 1980,[1] after $29 million was spent on the project.[2]
Cancelled nuclear power plant in Massachusetts
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 site on the Montague Plains. 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 went on trial in September 1974 on charges of malicious destruction, but was acquitted on a technicality.[2][3] Lovejoy's action galvanized local public opinion against the plant which ended the project entirely.[2][3]
In 1975, Lovejoy made the first documentary film to emerge on the anti-nuclear movement, and Lovejoy's story, called Lovejoy's Nuclear War. He later helped to form the Clamshell Alliance anti-nuclear group. In 1977, the Clamshell Alliance was involved in a series of mass protests against utilities attempting to build nuclear power plants, occupying the proposed site of the Seabrook nuclear power reactor in New Hampshire. This series of protests, which resulted in 1,400 arrests, inspired nuclear opposition groups in other parts of the United States.[4]
A total of 63 nuclear units were canceled in the USA between 1975 and 1980.[5] Many nuclear plant proposals were no longer viable due to the downturn of electricity demand increases, significant cost and time overruns, and more complex regulatory requirements. Also, there was considerable public opposition to nuclear power in the US by this time.[6]
See also
- United States portal
- Energy portal
- Nuclear technology portal
- Anti-nuclear protests in the United States
- List of books about nuclear issues
- List of canceled nuclear plants in the United States
- Nuclear power debate
- Nuclear power in the United States
- Allen Young (writer)
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Anti-nuclear movement in the United States |
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General |
- Anti-nuclear groups in the US
- Great Peace March
- Nuclear history of the United States
- Nuclear power in the US
- Canceled nuclear reactors in the US
- Nuclear weapons and the US
- Protests in the US
- Anti-nuclear advocates in the US
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Organizations and groups |
- Abalone Alliance
- Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility
- Clamshell Alliance
- Committee for Nuclear Responsibility
- Corporate Accountability International
- Critical Mass Energy Project
- Friends of the Earth
- Greenpeace USA
- Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
- Mothers for Peace
- Musicians United for Safe Energy
- Nevada Desert Experience
- Nuclear Control Institute
- Nuclear Information and Resource Service
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Plowshares movement
- Ploughshares Fund
- Public Citizen
- Shad Alliance
- Sierra Club
- Three Mile Island Alert
- Women Strike for Peace
- Kings Bay Plowshares
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People |
- Daniel Berrigan
- William J. Bichsel
- Bruce G. Blair
- Larry Bogart
- Helen Caldicott
- Barry Commoner
- Norman Cousins
- Frances Crowe
- Carrie Barefoot Dickerson
- Paul M. Doty
- Bernard T. Feld
- Randall Forsberg
- John Gofman
- Paul Gunter
- John Hall
- Jackie Hudson
- Sam Lovejoy
- Amory Lovins
- Bernard Lown
- Arjun Makhijani
- Gregory Minor
- Hermann Joseph Muller
- Ralph Nader
- Graham Nash
- Linus Pauling
- Eugene Rabinowitch
- Phil Radford
- Bonnie Raitt
- Carl Sagan
- Martin Sheen
- Karen Silkwood
- Thomas
- Louis Vitale
- Harvey Wasserman
- Victor Weisskopf
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Books |
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free
- Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon
- Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power
- Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978
- The Cult of the Atom
- The Doomsday Machine (book)
- Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy
- Killing Our Own
- Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant
- Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West
- Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System
- Nuclear Politics in America
- We Almost Lost Detroit
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Nuclear power in the United States |
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NRC Region I (Northeast) | |
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NRC Region II (South) | |
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NRC Region III (Midwest) | |
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NRC Region IV (West) | |
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Converted |
- Fort St. Vrain
- Midland
- Somerset
- Zimmer
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Closed | |
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Cancelled (incomplete list, whole plants only) | |
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Future | |
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Under construction | |
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- Regions of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Anti-nuclear movement in the United States
- Nuclear history of the United States
- Nuclear reactor accidents in the United States
- Nuclear safety in the United States
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