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‘Atoomenergie Nee bedankt’ badge

Nuclear power stations in the Netherlands

Many Dutch people wore this badge (whose slogan means ‘Nuclear power? No thanks!’) in the early 1980s. The badge craze came to the Netherlands from America and Britain in the mid-70s.

The environmental movement took advantage of it to spread its message: nuclear power is not clean, but highly contaminating due to radioactive waste. The Dutch government wanted to build three nuclear power stations, but the plan met with mass opposition. In 1981 and 1983 they organised wide-ranging social debate about the proposal. The conclusion was clear: there should be no new nuclear power stations in the Netherlands.

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Jasper Visser
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