Roland Czada Reaktorkatastrophen und Anti‐Atom Bewegung. Die Auswirkungen von Three Mile Island, Tschernobyl und Fukushima. In: Széll, György / Czada, Roland (Hrsg.) Fukushima. Die Katastrophe und ihre Folgen. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien 2013: PL Academic Research English Abstract: Nuclear disasters and radiation accidents fuelled anti‐nuclear activism worldwide. Yet their impacts on national energy policies vary considerably across countries. The German Government shut down half of the country’s nuclear reactors immediately after the Fukushima disaster and plans to fully abandon nuclear power by 2022. Germany’s exit from nuclear power has a long history which this chapter traces back to the mid‐1970s. It is shown that the institutionalization of an exit‐strategy within the party system and on all levels of government has been a prerequisite of the so called „energy turn“, for which Fukushima was only the trigger but not the cause. Applied to the Japanese case the German experience suggests that fundamental policy changes will be long in coming, despite surging protests and a widespread anti‐nuclear sentiment following the Fukushima disaster.