La oposición ciudadana al proyecto de central nuclear en Valencia de Don Juan (León)

In the last year of the Franco dictatorship was known the project of nuclear power plant that is intended to install in the Leonese town of Valencia de don Juan. In the absence of State information and the fear that energy, began to organize the coyantina citizenship. This popular movement was advised by the first environmental organizations. The direction of the opposition was of the municipal authorities, who faced the dictatorial power structure in a non-violent and organized way. They were new several features of this popular mobilization, as if he were headed by people linked to the regime, so his activity was not radical. It is also worth noting the importance which occurred in some media to these mobilizations. This evidence that it is was producing a remarkable transformation in the Leonese press, since the enormous labor disputes of the Leonese mining during the dictatorship had less media coverage. It was the first time that a new social movement that stretched across Europe, became a province of the interior like Leon.