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5.3.2  Anti-Nuclear Movement, OVE and the Tvind 
Turbine
The unique developments at the Tvind folk high school stand out
as inspiration to community activists across the world and
have resulted in numerous awards for their grassroots design,
construction and operation of a 2 MW wind turbine that still
operates even today. The development of this turbine, however,
was grounded in the cultural and political context of the period and
this is where its story begins.
Since the 1950s, Denmark had an on-going discussion over
the potential use of nuclear power as a source of electricity for
the country. The government founded the laboratory Risø in
Roskilde with a focus on research for nuclear power, but the initiative
quickly met with community resistance led primarily by the
Organisationen til Oplysning om Atomkraft, OOA (The Organisation
for Information on Nuclear Power). The organisation of activists
had local chapters across the country that would distribute
information and lead opposition to nuclear development. The
OOA's slogans included things like “Atomkraft? Nej tak!” (“Nuclear
power? No thanks!”), and “Hvad skal vaek? Barsebäck! Hvad skal
ind? Sol og vind” (“What shall be gone? Barsebäck!
What shall
come in? Sun and wind!”) and these were chanted time and again
by thousands of activists (Maegaard, 2010).
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Figure 5.11
OOA's logo, Smiling Sun, and slogan “Nuclear Power? No
thanks!” (© OOA Fonden/smilingsun.org).
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Barsebäck—a Swedish nuclear facility near the border of Denmark.
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