Anti-nuclear power organisations have emerged in every country that has had a nuclear power programme . Protest movements against nuclear power first emerged in the United States , at the local level , and spread quickly to Europe and the rest of the world . National nuclear campaigns emerged in the late 1970s . Fuelled by the Three Mile Island accident and the Chernobyl disaster , the anti-nuclear power movement mobilised political and economic forces which for some years " made nuclear energy untenable in many countries " . In the 1970s and 1980s , the formation of green parties was often a direct result of anti-nuclear politics ( e.g. , in Germany and Sweden )
Three Mile Island accident
Three Mile Island accident
Anti-nuclear movement