How to Use antinuclear in a Sentence

antinuclear

adjective
  • Corbyn is an old-school British leftist who cut his teeth in the antinuclear protests of the 1980s.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 9 June 2017
  • As part of the antinuclear physicians group, Muller reached out to Russian doctors.
    Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2019
  • That prospect marks a coming of age for a party that grew out of grass-roots ecological and antinuclear activism of the 1980s.
    Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2021
  • For Francis, the antinuclear message is the centerpiece of his three-day trip to Japan, the second half of a journey that began in Thailand.
    Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Their exposure led to Japan’s first large antinuclear protests.
    Pete McKenzie, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2022
  • With no resolution in sight, the antinuclear movement in recent years has lost steam.
    Amy Chang Chien Lam Yik Fei, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • One of the earliest antinuclear groups, Clamshell was a model for many others, which together helped slow the building of nuclear plants across the United States.
    New York Times, 13 Mar. 2022
  • In the 1960s, before the antinuclear movement gained traction, they were seen as a promising technology.
    New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Baerbock has been co-leader of the Greens since 2018 as the party transformed from its roots in the more antinuclear, environmentalist movements to the more mainstream party.
    Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Antinuclear activists claimed victory, while the government dismissed the result and reconfirmed its plan to build a plant here.
    Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2016
  • The Greens, a party with roots in the antinuclear movement, are the key obstacle to the proposal, according to several officials.
    Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Some local residents say the problems have been overblown by antinuclear activists.
    New York Times, 4 May 2022
  • The views of some antinuclear environmentalists have shifted over the years.
    Paul Vieira, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
  • While his supporters lamented the loss of a leader who had made a name with his stirring speeches and stern antinuclear stance, opponents accused the party of lackadaisical vetting.
    Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Natural-gas prices have soared as Russia clamps down on exports of the fuel, softening antinuclear sentiment in countries such as Germany and Japan that import lots of gas.
    Matthew Dalton, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Ellsberg spent the next several decades as a writer, lecturer and antinuclear activist.
    Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
  • Austria is now agitating to spread its antinuclear message on an EU level.
    Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2022
  • In 2010, Ayala’s primary care physician had run an ANA test, which detects antinuclear antibodies that attack the body’s tissues.
    Tatiana Walk-Morris, SELF, 20 Feb. 2018
  • But persistent confusion over what had happened and the extent of the danger, compounded by dire warnings by antinuclear activists, left the public disconcerted.
    New York Times, 31 Dec. 2020
  • The bunker mentality of nuclear engineers has been matched by the hysteria of some antinuclear campaigning.
    Fred Pearce, Time, 22 May 2018
  • Safety concerns, heightened by the 2011 disaster in Fukushima, Japan, have hit the whole industry hard, particularly in the West, where antinuclear groups are vocal and influential.
    New York Times, 21 Mar. 2020
  • The antinuclear movement provided the seedbed for defense conversion to germinate.
    Michael Brenes, The New Republic, 18 June 2020
  • The antinuclear move has support from many of Germany’s climate-change obsessives, but abandoning carbon-free nuclear power has had predictable results on emissions.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Like the abolitionists in the 19th century, the suffragists in the early 20th century and the antinuclear groups at the century’s end, a transnational, non-electoral political movement may be an effective mechanism for change.
    The Economist, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Although Belarus was the post-Soviet country most affected by Chernobyl fall-out, its antinuclear movement never attained the proportions of its Ukrainian counterpart.
    Serhii Plokhy, Time, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The antinuclear movement grew after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster created a cloud of nuclear fallout that reached West Germany, leaving scarring memories among that generation.
    Erika Solomon, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Subsequent films retreated from the original’s explicit antinuclear sentiments, instead introducing a rogue’s gallery of monsters for Godzilla to fight.
    Asher Elbein, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The Rocky Flats cleanup was officially completed in 2004; however, numerous scientists, nuclear experts, local citizens, and antinuclear activists argue the cleanup is far from finished.
    Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • At Diablo Canyon, antinuclear activists and environmentalists have raised concerns about the plant’s proximity to geologic fault lines, spent fuel storage, and operation and maintenance costs.
    Jennifer Hiller, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The couple consulted with doctors including a functional medicine practitioner and a rheumatologist, who discovered high levels of antinuclear antibodies (which can indicate an autoimmune disease).
    Aili Nahas, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2022

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