ichael oku with the story. >> three years after the power plant closed, a group of the activists gathereddo you want to see this plant shut down and every nuclear power plant shut down? >> i want every nuclear power plant in the world shut down today. >> reporter: i saw first hand what happens when nuclear energy goes wrong. the meter showing 3.2 microbursts of radiation, the japan. >> erie ghost towns on a nation's consciousness. that ongoing disaster an ocean away left many americans skittish about nuclear power. next an area that had been popular. and the film "china syndrome", in 1979 fuelled nuclear fears. you cannot promote a technology producing the most toxic place on earth. polls show half americans impose increasing nuclear energy, 75% don't think the government should build plants. now a growing movement things america is wrong. we caught up as they checked out the impact of the deab low plant. i grew up with a family. >> reporter: a more sinister threat, catastrophic climate change caused them to consider. >> the thing that snapped us out of it was trying to figure out how to