Indian Point has been a target of protesters and antinuclear activists, especially after Sept. 11, 2001.

One of the founders of the anthropology of science, his early work was on the culture of nuclear weapons scientists and antinuclear activists.

According to The Nuclear Resister, a newsletter published in Tucson, more than 3,000 antinuclear activists have been arrested annually since 1983.

For all of the recent contrition, however, citizen groups and antinuclear activists say the electricity industry is trying to pull another fast one.

Warnings about this danger come not from antinuclear activists but from leaders of the nuclear industry, which would be a primary victim of new Chernobyls.

The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty has been a goal of antinuclear activists ever since President Eisenhower first proposed one in 1957.

The antinuclear activists were crowing "I told you so!

Yet even those who should know better are blaming antinuclear activists with antediluvian mindsets for this "loss" for Long Islanders and for science.

Mr. Thompson, the eminent historian, is also known across the globe as an antinuclear activist.

On July 21, 2007, a Russian antinuclear activist was killed in a protest outside a future Uranium enrichment site.