What is Anti-nuclear movement in California?
The 1970s proved to be a pivotal period for the '''anti-nuclear movement in California'''. There was confrontation between [[nuclear power]] advocates and environmentalists.<ref name=Sun>{{Cite web |url=http://infodome.sdsu.edu/about/depts/spcollections/collections/sundesert.shtml |title=San Diego Gas & Electric, Sundesert Nuclear Power Plant Collection |access-date=2008-12-29 |archive-date=2018-02-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212050337/https://library.sdsu.edu/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1981, 1,900 activists were arrested during protests at Diablo Canyon Power Plant. In 1984, the Davis [[City Council]] declared the city to be a nuclear free zone. California has banned the approval of new nuclear reactors since the late 1970s because of concerns over waste disposal. ==Early conflicts== The start of the anti-nuclear movement in California was the controversy over [[Pacific Gas & Electric]]'s attempt to build the nation's first nuclear power plant in Bodega Bay. This conflict began in 1958 and ended in 1964, with the forced abandonment of these plans. Subsequent plans to build a nuclear power plant in Malibu were also abandoned.<ref name=critical>{{Cite web |url=http://jpe.library.arizona.edu/volume_6/wellockvol6.htm |title=Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958-1978 |access-date=2008-12-29 |archive-date=2009-06-06 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5hKCeIvPw?url=http://jpe.library.arizona.edu/volume_6/wellockvol6.htm |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> ==Into the seventies== The anti-nuclear movement grew in California between 1964 and 1974. It was during this period that some scientists and engineers began supporting the positions of the activists. They were influenced by the non-material philosophy that had inspired activists and had impacted the public consciousness.<ref name=critical/> While Californian voters failed to pass a 1972 proposal placing a 5-year moratorium on nuclear plant construction, anti-nuclear groups campaigned to stop construction of sev