International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

Austria is a signatory of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has signed and ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), being one of the 44 listed countries needed to sign and ratify for the CTBT to enter into force.

A nuclear power plant was built in Austria in the 1970’s but was not started up.

In December 1998, following a referendum where 50.5% of those who voted said no to nuclear power, the Austrian parliament voted unanimously a law that nuclear power would not be used to generate electricity.